Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:13:02 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> To: Fred Clift <fred@veriohosting.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) Message-ID: <20000725171302.B9956@manatee.mammalia.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007251525290.63747-100000@vespa.orem.iserver.com>; from fred@veriohosting.com on Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 03:29:08PM -0600 References: <200007232030.NAA23028@pike.osd.bsdi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007251525290.63747-100000@vespa.orem.iserver.com>
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 03:29:08PM -0600, Fred Clift wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > > the geometry of a disk. At the very least, dangerously dedicated mode > > should specify a valid length for the slice the way that truly dedicated > > mode does so that if you ever need to stick a dedicated disk in another > > computer for some reason, it doesn't see that all but the first 25,000k as > > being free and happily reformat it for you or other nonsense. > > I whole-heartedly agree, and do this for all my dangerously dedicated > installs. one disklabel command, and 30 seconds in fdisk are all that is > needed to do this, or rather, less than a second of my time since I wrote > a program to automate this piping input into fdisk, since the scripting > stuff in fdisk is broken in some dumb ways... To top it off, this 'fixes' > the problem that some bioses have with dedicated disks. Ie the bioses > main source of confusion is the broken partition table entry that is put > there when by disklabel... > Would you mind posting that script? I'd like to see it. Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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