From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 10 01:42:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F541065692 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:42:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mkhitrov@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF968FC21 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 22so1809595eye.9 for ; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:42:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=PxZjn/IP4bKmdIlQmjgdz0wYiRNiFqbfuO3LX4s5t1k=; b=XNRRHiEk4Fga7cmbOb6d5EiD85DMLpivwQmPS6Y47+qWgBmib6gX9FHQGWt3gTJjmF x82CMNa+rjOzqu3JJW8njSDkrf1rzKHN5r8iq7T8onNj40YI6QexvOyJQzfWy2i9ryf7 R3Rx5805jtiz57aZVU9YTXH6sZZSG9uWolFVY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ViycW209xPoO2w7lkUgF5pb2c8wNnTRpFoph91baCdmwL2Z77q7GUBtgr/dI7ZFhtN kyu8Jdk/1JVpakdF8RhG8Sv9oyXZJJq32GZm0JcuC4y40I2U69rahMai+7g5W1KT3uBy 5gl19To0Ug0cEiCGRjCk0eHZjwZp6wAlJdSJE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.68.143 with SMTP id v15mr1826119ebi.45.1260409320076; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:42:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B204FDD.3070005@lazlarlyricon.com> References: <20091209002231.EB7D01065741@hub.freebsd.org> <675083.74248.qm@web65510.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <20091210012256.7d2e8240@gumby.homeunix.com> <4B204FDD.3070005@lazlarlyricon.com> From: Maxim Khitrov Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:41:40 -0500 Message-ID: <26ddd1750912091741g60fb428ape15225c12e9d8c8b@mail.gmail.com> To: Rolf Nielsen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated 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: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:42:01 -0000 On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > RW wrote: >> >> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:42:31 -0800 (PST) >> James Phillips wrote: >> >> >>> I sort of followed the discussion as well. There was some disagreement >>> about what "dangreously dedicated" means. Does it mean getting rid of t= he >>> DOS partition table (slices?) =C2=A0Or, does it mean creating a slice o= r disks >>> without BSD partitions? >> >> It means the former. >> > > As far as I understand it, it's called Dangerously Dedicated because it m= ay > cause other systems not to recognise the disk. Consequently, newfs'ing a > slice without first partitioning it can hardly be DD, since that is what > other systems do, right? That is correct. That slice will not be bootable, but you can use it to store data. - Max