Might be environment/company specific, but in my company we make a 
partition on each disk so I usually only operate on a disk where the number 
of partitions is {}.
I've heard discussions of folks using the entire disk, but that isn't 
something we do, so isn't an issue/concern.



On Friday, August 10, 2018 at 7:38:58 PM UTC-4, Dylan Martin wrote:
>
> I all.  
>
> I've used parted and lvm (lvg & lvol) to set up machines, but I recently 
> broke a system when I repartitioned a disk that was already in use. 
> (Wooops!)
>
> Does anyone have a good idea how to determine if a block device is already 
> in use?  By "in use" I mean, mounted in some way.
>
> Thanks!
> -Dylan 
>

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