On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Rolf Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > RW wrote: >> >> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:42:31 -0800 (PST) >> James Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> I sort of followed the discussion as well. There was some disagreement >>> about what "dangreously dedicated" means. Does it mean getting rid of the >>> DOS partition table (slices?) Or, does it mean creating a slice or disks >>> without BSD partitions? >> >> It means the former. >> > > As far as I understand it, it's called Dangerously Dedicated because it may > 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
