I was reading recently about a copy protection scheme that stores data in sector 32, which is apparently right after the partition info, correct?
The scheme I am looking at claims to defeat Norton Ghost and yet survive a format... probably not low-level. However, they will not reveal the details of where the license info is, except to say it is not 'in the filesystem.' Do these unused, reserved, or 'system' sectors exist on a UFS/FFS hard disk? If I am 'dangerously dedicated,' does that extra space go away? Is there any way a copy protection scheme could be devised under FreeBSD that could access that area, or another area beyond the reach of the filesystem? Jonathon McKitrick -- Hoppiness is a good beer.