Re: Best Practice - Partition, or not?

2013-05-08 Thread Kai Krakow
Helmut Hullen hul...@t-online.de schrieb: If I want to manage a complete disk with btrfs, what's the Best Practice? Would it be best to create the btrfs filesystem on /dev/sdb, or would it be better to create just one partition from start to end and then do mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb1? Would the

Re: Best Practice - Partition, or not?

2013-05-08 Thread George Mitchell
On 05/08/2013 12:31 AM, Kai Krakow wrote: Helmut Hullen hul...@t-online.de schrieb: If I want to manage a complete disk with btrfs, what's the Best Practice? Would it be best to create the btrfs filesystem on /dev/sdb, or would it be better to create just one partition from start to end and

Best Practice - Partition, or not?

2013-05-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello If I want to manage a complete disk with btrfs, what's the Best Practice? Would it be best to create the btrfs filesystem on /dev/sdb, or would it be better to create just one partition from start to end and then do mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb1? Would the same recomendation hold true, if we're

Re: Best Practice - Partition, or not?

2013-05-01 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 07:51:12AM +, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello If I want to manage a complete disk with btrfs, what's the Best Practice? Would it be best to create the btrfs filesystem on /dev/sdb, or would it be better to create just one partition from start to end and then do

Re: Best Practice - Partition, or not?

2013-05-01 Thread dima
On 05/01/2013 04:51 PM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello If I want to manage a complete disk with btrfs, what's the Best Practice? Would it be best to create the btrfs filesystem on /dev/sdb, or would it be better to create just one partition from start to end and then do mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb1?

Re: Best Practice - Partition, or not?

2013-05-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello dima dima dolenin at parallels.com writes: (NB: grub will not boot from /dev/sdb, selinux will) Fair point :) I don't plan to boot from the disk, though. It's a data disk, if you will. But, yeah, for a best practice, that's certainly something to keep in mind. BR, Alexander -- To

Re: Best Practice - Partition, or not?

2013-05-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 1 May 2013, dima dole...@parallels.com wrote: If I want to manage a complete disk with btrfs, what's the Best Practice? Would it be best to create the btrfs filesystem on /dev/sdb, or would it be better to create just one partition from start to end and then do mkfs.btrfs

Re: Best Practice - Partition, or not?

2013-05-01 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Alexander, Du meintest am 01.05.13: If I want to manage a complete disk with btrfs, what's the Best Practice? Would it be best to create the btrfs filesystem on /dev/sdb, or would it be better to create just one partition from start to end and then do mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb1? Would the

Re: Best Practice - Partition, or not?

2013-05-01 Thread dima
On 05/01/2013 05:44 PM, Russell Coker wrote: On Wed, 1 May 2013, dima dole...@parallels.com wrote: If I want to manage a complete disk with btrfs, what's the Best Practice? Would it be best to create the btrfs filesystem on /dev/sdb, or would it be better to create just one partition from start

Re: Best Practice - Partition, or not?

2013-05-01 Thread Gabriel de Perthuis
Hello If I want to manage a complete disk with btrfs, what's the Best Practice? Would it be best to create the btrfs filesystem on /dev/sdb, or would it be better to create just one partition from start to end and then do mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb1? Partitions (GPT) are always more flexible and