As Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I don't understand the need some people have for using something > that is labelled as DANGEROUS.
Historically, it hasn't been labelled that, it only later became common terminology for it -- in the typical half-joking manner. > No, it won't hurt your cats but you may lose hair from using it, and > for what benefit? NONE! See my other reply about fdisk tables: they are a misdesign from the beginning. The single most wanted feature it buys you is the ability to completely forget the term `geometry' with your disks: the very first sectors of a disk always have the same BIOS int 0x13 representation, regardless of what your BIOS/controller thinks the `geometry' might be. Thus, those disks are basically portable between controller BIOSes. (Modulo those newer broken BIOSes that believe eggs must be smarter than hens -- see my other article for an opinion.) -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message