partitioning server with 2 hard drives

Valeri Galtsev galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu
Fri Sep 18 02:05:03 UTC 2020



> On Sep 17, 2020, at 8:56 PM, Kevin P. Neal <kpn at neutralgood.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 04:58:46PM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> Apologies about Linuxism question: we do not have "nodev" mount option 
>> (I just double checked with man mount). Are we weaker here than Linux 
>> folks? I do use "nodev" in addition to the above on world writable mount 
>> points on Linux boxes.
> 
> The mknod man page says that devices outside of devfs don't work since
> FreeBSD 6.0. So there's no need for "nodev".

Thanks a lot, Kevin. I always say to myself: you learn something every day.

Valeri

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