Dangerously Dedicated

[Maxim Khitrov]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Rolf Nielsen
<listreader at lazlarlyricon.com> wrote:
> RW wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:42:31 -0800 (PST)
>> James Phillips <anti_spam256 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I sort of followed the discussion as well. There was some disagreement
>>> about what "dangreously dedicated" means. Does it mean getting rid of the
>>> DOS partition table (slices?)  Or, does it mean creating a slice or disks
>>> without BSD partitions?
>>
>> It means the former.
>>
>
> As far as I understand it, it's called Dangerously Dedicated because it may
> cause other systems not to recognise the disk. Consequently, newfs'ing a
> slice without first partitioning it can hardly be DD, since that is what
> other systems do, right?

That is correct. That slice will not be bootable, but you can use it
to store data.

- Max