Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:22:41 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using a hard drive without partitions Message-ID: <42ECD0A1.9030702@datacomm.ch> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0507301038564d5af4@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a050730012642c200b6@mail.gmail.com> <656DB9CB-8806-4331-B7F0-603F887D7B9F@shire.net> <ef10de9a0507301038564d5af4@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Nikolas Britton wrote: > Correct about DD... This array will NEVER be used with another OS and > It will NEVER be booted from.... The disk array will never show it's > self in DOS because it needs special drivers. In FreeBSD I want it to > show up as one big disk and just mount it as /data or something to > that effect. Omitting slices (ie, using DD) will work just fine then (the drawbacks that it does have don't apply to you). It will keep working in the future. Whether you want to use it or not comes down to personal preference really. Cheers Benjamin [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iD8DBQFC7NClgShs4qbRdeQRAsuwAJ9zjoYKy+UyiqLK6pVG8bHrG8I+BgCghKz9 od2EY6GRVTxAL/XekBvlH0I= =rMtT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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