From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 20 0:59:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server1.cyberix.com (server1.cyberix.com [207.106.53.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835BE1132A for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:59:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad@cyberix.com) Received: from BillyJoeBob (max1-ppp-14.cyberix.com [207.106.53.193]) by server1.cyberix.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA26948; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 03:54:08 -0500 (EST) From: "Brad Benson" To: "freebsd-questions" , "Greg Black" Subject: RE: BSD filesystems & MBR Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 03:57:50 -0500 Message-ID: <000001be5caf$185c7fe0$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-reply-to: <19990220010713.3722.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Optionally, but not recommended, you can make the disk "dangerously > > dedicated". > > I keep seeing references that repeat this advice, but I have not > seen any compelling reasons for it. Is there any real reason > why, on a machine that will never run anything but FreeBSD, this > could present a problem? > I'm not sure of the technical issues invloved, but I've been "dangerously dedicateing" the drives on almost all of my installs. I've been running that way on at least two major servers and a bunch of smaller routes and have never had a problem. It comes in handy for the small hard drives on the 386 boxes I turn into routers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message