Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:28:32 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: jerrymc@msu.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS partitioning Message-ID: <493a29a0.hL3b8/2ruLsiG6A9%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20081205160249.GA5954@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812021048180.3801@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> <20081202111740.96805018.freebsd@edvax.de> <20081202163920.GE90039@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <1228355243.23645.10.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <18743.14461.951431.581673@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <1228359465.23645.27.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081204154923.GB1366@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <1228413503.79750.8.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081205160249.GA5954@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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> Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ... AFAIK the "danger" is that someone boots the machine with an installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the disk as unformatted -- hence "obviously" containing nothing important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR.
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