> 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 future-proof. If you ever need to shrink the btrfs filesystem and give the space to another partition, or do a conversion to lvm/bcache/luks (shameless plug: https://github.com/g2p/blocks ), it'd be stupid to be locked into your current setup for want of a few megabytes of space before your filesystem. > Would the same recomendation hold true, if we're talking about huge > disks, like 4TB or so? More so, since it can be infeasible to move this much data. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
