Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:27:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" Message-ID: <20000412162705.O35391@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000412084005.mj@isy.liu.se> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0004112110230.16167-100000@apogee.whack.org> <XFMail.000412084005.mj@isy.liu.se>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 12 April 2000 at 8:40:05 +0200, Micke Josefsson wrote: > > On 12-Apr-00 `ekips wrote: >> when making partitions with /stand/sysinstall, i decided to press >> "A" and got the following message: >> >> "Do you want to do this with a true partition entry so as to remain >> cooperative with any future operating systemss on the drive(s)?" >> >> ... and then points me to the FreeBSD FAQ, where i could not find >> any info on the subject. where can i find good documentation on >> this? or even better, could someone explain all the ramifications >> of my two options [yes/no]. thanx. > > In short: Normally a disk consists of up to 4 primary partitions (or > three primary and one extended, which can contain infinately many > extended partitions). A table at the beginning of the disk has space > for four pointers to these four regions on disk. A dangerously > dedicated disk ignores this table and starts using the disk from its > very beginning, as a result of this you cannot afterwards repartition > your disk to make space for (shudder) windows. This works all right > for FreeBSD: If you have no intention of installing anything but > FreeBSD on it then go straight ahead with 'dangerously dedicated'. > > You can still erase the entire disk and partition it with dos's fdisk > later if you want - but you'll lose the your FreeBSD installation > then. This is a frequently cited reason, but when you think about it, it doesn't make much sense: even if the disk has a Microsoft partition table, if you assign the entire disk to FreeBSD, you can repartition, but you'll lose the FreeBSD installation. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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