Using a hard drive without partitions

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Jul 30, 2005, at 2:26 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> What are the ramifications, good or bad, of not using partitions on a
> FreeBSD disk?.

My understanding is that if you use partitions in a standard way,  
other operating systems that may be or in the future be on the system  
in question will not wipe out your FreeBSD installation on the  
"dangerously dedicated" disk.  There is nothing inherent wrong with  
DD but it is more dangerous if other OSes may be involved.  I have  
used both sorts of layouts and have never had any problems, yet  
again, my computers were servers that would never have another OS  
anywhere near them...

Chad

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