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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