From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 16:55:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A71A37B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:55:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAK0r1v60326; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:23:01 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:23:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jim King Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001120112301.T58333@echunga.lemis.com> References: <20001120105211.O58333@echunga.lemis.com> <20001120110319.P58333@echunga.lemis.com> <002901c0528b$e934d760$04e48486@marble> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <002901c0528b$e934d760$04e48486@marble>; from jim@jimking.net on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:50:40PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 18:50:40 -0600, Jim King wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> Why is DD ever _needed_? >> >> Because Microsoft partition tables waste space. > > That's a really weak argument, given the price and size of drives > nowadays. It's a matter of principle. Why waste? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message