bsdlabel and c partition
Glenn Dawson
glenn at antimatter.net
Fri Sep 16 23:38:29 PDT 2005
At 11:23 PM 9/16/2005, Valerio daelli wrote:
>Hi
>I have partitioned a disk using bsdlabel and I have used
>the c partition for the entire disk. According to the manual
>this mean I have used the disk in dedicated mode.
>Is there any danger in it?
>Is it preferable to use another partition?
As long as you keep the disk away from other OS's you'll be
fine. Some utilities in FreeBSD will complain if you use the c
partition. Personally I've been using the a partition on freshly
labeled disks recently, since it defaults to the whole disk minus the
first 16 sectors.
-Glenn
>Thanks a lot.
> Valerio Daelli
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