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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:05:49 -0600
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Jim King <jim@jimking.net>
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Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)
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At 11:23 AM 11/20/00 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
>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?


Losing 32KB on a 30GB disk is pretty damn insignificant.  Even if it were a 
512MB disk a .00625% loss is not much.  Why waste time quibbling. <sigh>


IMO, sysinstall shouldn't allow any disks to be done dedicated.  Those 
adamant about using DD can do so manually to prevent less experienced users 
from shooting themselves in the foot.


Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net
Systems/Network Administrator
FreeBSD - the power to serve



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