From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 15 20:52:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B38106566B for ; Sun, 15 May 2011 20:52:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ac@belngo.info) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FE98FC1A for ; Sun, 15 May 2011 20:52:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg13 with SMTP id 13so1673223gyg.13 for ; Sun, 15 May 2011 13:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.136.20 with SMTP id j20mr2798393ybd.113.1305491410138; Sun, 15 May 2011 13:30:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.106.10 with HTTP; Sun, 15 May 2011 13:29:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Alaksiej C Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 23:29:50 +0300 Message-ID: To: Greg Rivers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Lucas Reddinger , freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple question regarding GPT and UFS for data only X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:52:09 -0000 > What you did is fine. =A0Don't forget to update /etc/fstab. =A0You're not > booting from this device, so you do not need boot blocks. =A0In fact, sin= ce > you only want a single file system on the mirror, you don't need to > partition it. True. But I know a men, who's hard drive was recognized as empty by his motherboard, because there was no MBR, and then manipulated by allocation of HPA on the disk to backup mb's ROM. As for me, I would rather partition.