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David O'Brien wrote:
> Why did you choose a "dangerously dedicated" install?  "dangerously
> dedicated" might go away in the future (as it doesn't leave space enough
> space for boot0).  Unless the normal slice configuration won't work for
> you, there really is no good reason to use "dangerously dedicated".

What if you have multiple drives in your system? Wouldn't "dangerously
dedicated" yield more disk space for use? I have three drives in my
system, and my third drive is "dangerously dedicated" to FreeBSD. No
other operating systems use that drive, so I saw no reason not to make
it dangerously dedicated.

Jamil


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