Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 03:26:04 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Using a hard drive without partitions Message-ID: <ef10de9a050730012642c200b6@mail.gmail.com>
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What are the ramifications, good or bad, of not using partitions on a FreeBSD disk?.... What is wrong with just a slice? Drive: Dangerously dedicated /dev/da0s1 newfs -O2 -U I don't see the point of labeling the disk into partitions, but I can't find any info on why not to do this. I did managed to setup a test drive this way and then grow it (RAID 5 array) with OCE, resize it with fdisk, then make it bigger with bsdlabel, and finally use growfs to extend the filesystem by 10GB. I had no problems doing it like this but everything I've read tells me to partition the disk.
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