Daniel Eriksson wrote this message on Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 20:47 +0100: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > It is still possible to create dangerously dedicated disks, btw, and > > it is still possible to put a disklabel (or even a filesystem) > > directly on a device. GEOM means *more* freedom, not less. > > I've been putting filesystems directly on devices for some time now. Are there any drawbacks to doing this? The biggest issue that I've had with this is that if you don't have an entry in /etc/fstab, fsck can't identify the fs type on the device, and so: fsck /dev/da0 won't work... You have to manually specify which fs type it is, or add it to /etc/fstab, or put it in a disklabel which identifies it... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."Received on Fri Mar 17 2006 - 22:06:37 UTC
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