From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 21 10:52:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3849A37B4D7 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 10:52:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10375; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:50:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200011211850.LAA10375@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) In-Reply-To: <200011211532.eALFWnB24065@cwsys.cwsent.com> from Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group at "Nov 21, 0 07:32:38 am" To: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:50:49 -0700 (MST) Cc: uwe@ptc.spbu.ru, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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