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 tools assume this is how >> the system is laid out...they are not tested otherwise. ... > > Do softraid disks and vnd's count as disks here too? Thanks. > > Regards, > David
the softraid(4) man page says so, so guess what my answer is? :) What's the issue with doing things as advised? What is the goal? Bragging rights? "look what I got away with!"? Not worth it. [note: there is some question if this is desired in non-fdisk platforms, but that's not the OP's question...and the man page still says use it] Nick.
