From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 31 13:22:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A08D16A42C for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:22:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu (c-213-160-32-54.customer.ggaweb.ch [213.160.32.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8162243D46 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:22:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E389D3; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:22:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (midgard [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00201-10; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:22:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.0.0.23] (mini.intranet [10.0.0.23]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED7613; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:22:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42ECD0A1.9030702@datacomm.ch> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:22:41 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolas Britton References: <656DB9CB-8806-4331-B7F0-603F887D7B9F@shire.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig2CACAD17021C75104FF64E83" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at maxlor.mine.nu Cc: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: Re: Using a hard drive without partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:22:51 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig2CACAD17021C75104FF64E83 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --------------enig2CACAD17021C75104FF64E83 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iD8DBQFC7NClgShs4qbRdeQRAsuwAJ9zjoYKy+UyiqLK6pVG8bHrG8I+BgCghKz9 od2EY6GRVTxAL/XekBvlH0I= =rMtT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig2CACAD17021C75104FF64E83--