On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:15:55AM +0200, Jean-Fran?ois SIMON wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday, I have asked someone to install, disklabel, newfs and mount a
> disk on a small local server machine.
> I have forgotten to fdisk -i in the first place, it does however apparently
> work well.
>
> Please could you let me know which type of problem there could be or not at
> all if we do not fdisk -i this particular disk in the future, for normal
> storage use ...
>
> Thanks for help,
>
> Jean-Fran?ois
I would say it does not make a difference, except it might surpise you
later. You won't be able to boot from the disk (assuming i386/amd64).
Also, running fdisk -u on the disk will likely make the data
unavailable.
-Otto
