I apologize with you for the following question not strictly related with FreeBSD.
Again, I apologize in advance if I'm a little bit confusing.
I'd like to use an hard disk like an old magnetic tape to store files.
I'm not interested (and I don't want) that the hard disk is bootable, so I don't want create on it the Master Boor Record or the GPT.
First question:
Is it possible realize this only creating the partition table (fat, exfat, ntfs, hfs,...) so to identify files and directory on it ?
In other words, I only want that the hard disk has a filesystem, but it has not to be bootable.
That is, is it valid this expression: make partition table = make a filesystem ?
Second question:
If so, in which a way can I do this with gpart ?
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
Again, I apologize in advance if I'm a little bit confusing.
I'd like to use an hard disk like an old magnetic tape to store files.
I'm not interested (and I don't want) that the hard disk is bootable, so I don't want create on it the Master Boor Record or the GPT.
First question:
Is it possible realize this only creating the partition table (fat, exfat, ntfs, hfs,...) so to identify files and directory on it ?
In other words, I only want that the hard disk has a filesystem, but it has not to be bootable.
That is, is it valid this expression: make partition table = make a filesystem ?
Second question:
If so, in which a way can I do this with gpart ?
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.