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Date:      Sat, 6 Dec 2008 20:59:52 -0500
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        jerrymc@msu.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UFS partitioning
Message-ID:  <20081207015952.GA11735@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <493a29a0.hL3b8/2ruLsiG6A9%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812021048180.3801@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> <20081202111740.96805018.freebsd@edvax.de> <20081202163920.GE90039@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <1228355243.23645.10.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <18743.14461.951431.581673@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <1228359465.23645.27.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081204154923.GB1366@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <1228413503.79750.8.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081205160249.GA5954@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <493a29a0.hL3b8/2ruLsiG6A9%perryh@pluto.rain.com>

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On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 11:28:32PM -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:

> > Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ...
> 
> AFAIK the "danger" is that someone boots the machine with an
> installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
> disk as unformatted -- hence "obviously" containing nothing
> important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR.

Yes, that could happen if you run a non-FreeBSD installer that
doesn't know about FreeBSD and Dangerously Dedicated disks.

////jerry


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