On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2012-02-15, David Vasek wrote:
In contrast, Marco, as the author of softraid(4), says the opposite about
use of fdisk, even on the physical disks. And what he says is more recent
than the example in the softraid(4) man page.
http://marc.info/?l=
On 2012-02-15, David Vasek wrote:
> In contrast, Marco, as the author of softraid(4), says the opposite about
> use of fdisk, even on the physical disks. And what he says is more recent
> than the example in the softraid(4) man page.
>
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=128847054226289&w=2
>
>
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Nick Holland wrote:
On 02/15/12 03:23, David Vasek wrote:
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Nick Holland wrote:
Just put the fdisk partition in place on every disk you want to use on an
i386/amd64 and all other fdisk platforms. There are no good reasons not to,
there are a lot of good
On 02/15/12 03:23, David Vasek wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Nick Holland wrote:
>
>> Just put the fdisk partition in place on every disk you want to use on an
>> i386/amd64 and all other fdisk platforms. There are no good reasons not to,
>> there are a lot of good reasons to do so. All the too
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Nick Holland wrote:
Just put the fdisk partition in place on every disk you want to use on an
i386/amd64 and all other fdisk platforms. There are no good reasons not to,
there are a lot of good reasons to do so. All the tools assume this is how
the system is laid out...th
> I always tell people who ask me on this that they *have to* create a fdisk
> partition before creating a disklabel partition. Now I think I have a
> better understanding on this.
thanks all for the responses.
On 02/07/2012 04:11 AM, Alan Cheng wrote:
thanks Janne for the explanation.
I thought a fdisk partition on i386 is *required* after reading FAQ14/man
pages and I was a bit surprised to be able to create a disklabel partition
without doing "fdisk -i". so I wrote to the list for help on what I
mis
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012, Alan Cheng wrote:
> 2. what is the disadvantage of using a disklabel partition without fdisk
> partition in above mentioned scenario?
your disk is now unlike 99.9% of the disks everybody else uses.
-i $disk) on a blank disk.
>
> I'm confused. So my question is:
> 1. Is fdisk partition a must for a NON-SYSTEM disk on i386?
> 2. what is the disadvantage of using a disklabel partition without fdisk
> partition in above mentioned scenario?
>
> thanks.
>
> - Alan
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with 5.0 i386.
>> > Despite what's in FAQ14.4, I found I can still create disklabel
>> > partitions
>> > without a fdisk partition (no fdisk -i $disk) on a blank disk.
>> >
>> > I'm confused. So my question is:
>> > 1. Is f
t; > without a fdisk partition (no fdisk -i $disk) on a blank disk.
> >
> > I'm confused. So my question is:
> > 1. Is fdisk partition a must for a NON-SYSTEM disk on i386?
> > 2. what is the disadvantage of using a disklabel partition without fdisk
> > pa
;m confused. So my question is:
> 1. Is fdisk partition a must for a NON-SYSTEM disk on i386?
> 2. what is the disadvantage of using a disklabel partition without fdisk
> partition in above mentioned scenario?
fdisk and disklabel aren't really optional in that sense.
Every disk (at l
Hello list,
I'm playing around with fdisk on a vmware virtual machine with 5.0 i386.
Despite what's in FAQ14.4, I found I can still create disklabel partitions
without a fdisk partition (no fdisk -i $disk) on a blank disk.
I'm confused. So my question is:
1. Is fdisk partition a
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