From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 16:36:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44AD137B4CF for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:36:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18649; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:06:14 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001120110319.P58333@echunga.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:06:14 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Cc: Warner Losh , Sam Zamarripa , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Nov-00 Greg Lehey wrote: > > Why is DD ever _needed_? > Because Microsoft partition tables waste space. They aren't 'MS partition tables'. And they don't waste much space. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message