Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 20:52:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using a hard drive without partitions Message-ID: <20050807202720.T46397@maren.thelosingend.net> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a050730012642c200b6@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a050730012642c200b6@mail.gmail.com>
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* Nikolas Britton [2005-07-30 03:26 -0500] > What are the ramifications, good or bad, of not using partitions on a > FreeBSD disk?.... What is wrong with just a slice? In FreeBSD, you can newfs a disk (eg. ad0), a slice (eg. ad0s1) or a partition (eg. ad0s1a). Even a regular file could be newfs-ed! You can also bsdlabel either a disk or a slice or a regular file, and this way you can create a /dev/ad0a device. Also fdisk can handle regular files, so you can slice a file. Even though this last example would make much sense, the former do! I have newfs-ed the c-partition myself several times, and also skipped the bsdlabel-ing completely and just newfs'ed the entire slice. On dvd+rw, I've newfs-ed the media, without slicing or partitioning/labeling first. I haven't tried to bsdlabel a disk, though. I guess the problem with using such setups would be non-standardization. That is, other systems might not know how to interact with your particular setup. Otherwise it should be fine. It's not much use either, though, to skip to partitioning; you don't save much space by doing so. Svein Halvor
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