From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 14: 9:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F16F37B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 14:09:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from billy-club.village.org (billy-club.village.org [10.0.0.3]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAJM9JQ19372; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:09:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billy-club.village.org (8.11.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id eAJM95G03635; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:09:05 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011192209.eAJM95G03635@billy-club.village.org> To: Jamil Taylor Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 not (easily) bootable Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 11:59:22 EST." <3A1806EA.6E56BBDD@pobox.com> References: <3A1806EA.6E56BBDD@pobox.com> <3A17CDC1.7BFCA39B@eboa.com> <20001119083822.A39683@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:09:05 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3A1806EA.6E56BBDD@pobox.com> Jamil Taylor writes: : What if you have multiple drives in your system? Wouldn't "dangerously : dedicated" yield more disk space for use? I have three drives in my : system, and my third drive is "dangerously dedicated" to FreeBSD. No : other operating systems use that drive, so I saw no reason not to make : it dangerously dedicated. The amount of extra space is not worth fussing about (it is on the order of a few 10's of k, either 32k or 64k depending on the make and model of your hard drive). Dangerously dedicated also causes heartburn for many BIOSes because it has a bogus fdisk table on it. :-( Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message