From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 30 14:36:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44D916A420 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:36:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C613C43D45 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:36:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A07261EE0148; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 07:36:34 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6UEbjWQ032446; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 07:37:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j6UEbeKh032445; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 07:37:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: Nikolas Britton References: From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 07:37:40 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Nikolas Britton's message of "Sat, 30 Jul 2005 03:26:04 -0500") Message-ID: <4kbr4k9x6z.r4k@mail.opusnet.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: Re: Using a hard drive without partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:36:39 -0000 Nikolas Britton writes: > Drive: > Dangerously dedicated > /dev/da0s1 > newfs -O2 -U I think you're using "dangerously dedicated" wrongly. A DD disk is one which has no standard partition table in the MBR; the "disklabel" sectors (16) start at sector 0 (or with your no-secondary-partitions- either method, your filesystem would start there (newfs /dev/da0)). You've got a standard partition table with the s1 entry in use, which is not "dangerous". The FAQ has an entry on DD disks. I can't say much about your main question; I've never heard of doing it. It sounds less "dangerous" than putting a FS in a file, like we do with ISO filesystems all the time.