Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:50:49 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca Cc: uwe@ptc.spbu.ru, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <200011211850.LAA10375@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200011211532.eALFWnB24065@cwsys.cwsent.com> from Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group at "Nov 21, 0 07:32:38 am"
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As I recall, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: >> The last time this got beat to death, John Baldwin suggested moving >> the option out from sysinstall, but adding it to fdisk. That way >> newbies wouldn't see it up front, but it would still be available to >> folks who knew what they were doing and wanted to do it. > > To manually create a DD disk, you don't need an option added to fdisk. > Just disklabel the disk instead of fdisking it. I think John's point was to make it less likely a newbie (or otherwise clueless individal) would create a DD disk thinking it sounded cool. So, it wasn't so much that the option should be in fdisk, but that it shouldn't be in sysinstall. And fdisk =does= seem like a logical place for it. That's where you'd go to make a non-DD disk that used the whole drive. This system I'm typing on has a properly fdisk'd boot drive and a bunch of DD SCSI disks as the rest. I'm happy with that, but I understand (given how obscure this issue is) the wish to make it a little tougher to do. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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