Re: Using a hard drive without partitions

From: Gary W. Swearingen (garys_at_opusnet.com)
Date: 07/30/05

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    To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 07:37:40 -0700

    Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> writes:

    > Drive:
    > Dangerously dedicated
    > /dev/da0s1
    > newfs -O2 -U

    I think you're using "dangerously dedicated" wrongly. A DD disk is one
    which has no standard partition table in the MBR; the "disklabel"
    sectors (16) start at sector 0 (or with your no-secondary-partitions-
    either method, your filesystem would start there (newfs /dev/da0)).

    You've got a standard partition table with the s1 entry in use, which
    is not "dangerous". The FAQ has an entry on DD disks.

    I can't say much about your main question; I've never heard of doing
    it. It sounds less "dangerous" than putting a FS in a file, like
    we do with ISO filesystems all the time.
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