On 09/28/12 04:15, Jean-François SIMON wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday, I have asked someone to install, disklabel, newfs and mount a > disk on a small local server machine. > I have forgotten to fdisk -i in the first place, it does however apparently > work well. > > Please could you let me know which type of problem there could be or not at > all if we do not fdisk -i this particular disk in the future, for normal > storage use ... > > Thanks for help, > > Jean-François >
you got a time bomb. it may never go off, or it may cause you problems tomorrow. IF everyone managing the machine does everything right for the life of the machine, you are fine. Its unlikely OpenBSD itself will break this on a second disk in the future (though, we did consciously break it on boot disks in the past, so I'm not going to say we won't break your system in the future). However, since the machine is non-standard, it is exceptionally prone to user errors that could cause you loss of data. If you have just one person administering the machine, you can probably just put a sticker on it that says, "warning: wd1 has no fdisk partitioning", and never have a problem. However, you obviously have more than one person working on the system, and since you got this far, I'm going to assume that at least one person managing this machine doesn't know what that sticker would mean. I would highly suggest fixing the problem (unload data, rebuild properly, reload data). Nick.
