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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Cc: Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 11:15:44 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > it without any problem. It _may_ be possible that some
> > systems like "Windows" have trouble with this approach,
> 
> what trouble? Windows doesn't probably see anything.

I have _no_ idea. Systems behaving in a manner you cannot
expect or predict are hard to tell in what they could do
wrong on a "non-standard" setting (from their point of
view of course).



> anyway i would not risk running windows with FreeBSD containing disk 
> connected at the same time anyway. it's always risky.

It maybe suggests to "repair" it... :-)



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Polytropon
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