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Re: Is fdisk necessary to partition a second disk exclusively for data?



On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 16:32:40 +0100
hans dinsen-hansen <hansdinsenhansen%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Hi Gerad & list
> 
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Gerard Lally <gerard%netmail.ie@localhost>
> wrote:
> 
> > I<snip> ...  am I correct in
> > thinking I don't need to use fdisk to partition a second disk
> > dedicated entirely to data? Is disklabel partitioning enough for
> > this second disk?
> 
> Jes that's correct.  You do not have to use fdisk at all, if only
> NetBSD is using it.  The disk could be used for  "data" or whatever.
> E.g. /usr/pkg.

It's much clearer to me now Hans; many thanks.

-- 
Gerard Lally

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