From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 16:44:53 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 A341F37B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:44:47 -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 LAA19072; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:14:26 +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: <20001120110735.R58333@echunga.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:14:26 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa , Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Nov-00 Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 20 November 2000 at 11:06:14 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > They aren't 'MS partition tables'. > > And they don't waste much space. > They waste space. In most cases, they're not needed. Isn't that > enough? No, they are confusing and can cause problems if later you decide that you want make the disk bootable. They _are_ necessary with certain BIOSen. At least remove the option from sysinstall so new users don't get stuck with it. --- 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