On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote:
>> You could makefs on /dev/sd0c instead. Nothing really forces you to >> create other slices (or partitions) on the device. > > Bad advice. disklabel does not record some redundant information for > the c partitiion. Which may bite you in case of a superblock > corruption due to power loss, for example. In that case, fsck_ffs is > not able to reconstruct some vital data needed to do its work. Never > use the c partition for a file system. I don't think I advised it one bit, outside of "you could." Point taken, though, you're right.
