Re: To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannotaccess my storage, need syntax help)

2024-01-19 Thread Franco Martelli
On 19/01/24 at 20:14, Nicolas George wrote: Franco Martelli (12024-01-19): One case against using partitions on mdraid: if your array gets messed up, you get to recreate those partition tables yourself and that's just hilarious if you don't have a backup. Happened to a friend of mine, reason

Re: To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannotaccess my storage, need syntax help)

2024-01-19 Thread Nicolas George
Franco Martelli (12024-01-19): > > One case against using partitions on mdraid: if your array gets messed > > up, you get to recreate those partition tables yourself and that's just > > hilarious if you don't have a backup. Happened to a friend of mine, > > reason was a UPS brownout. > How can I

Re: To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannotaccess my storage, need syntax help)

2024-01-19 Thread Franco Martelli
On 19/01/24 at 09:03, Anssi Saari wrote: One case against using partitions on mdraid: if your array gets messed up, you get to recreate those partition tables yourself and that's just hilarious if you don't have a backup. Happened to a friend of mine, reason was a UPS brownout. How can I get a

Re: To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannotaccess my storage, need syntax help)

2024-01-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 10:28:30AM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Sounds like this group has finally achieved a long overdue consensus. How > many times since LVM was ready for root/boot volumes have I been told that > using partitions was necessary good practice. Even had that in job >

Re: To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannotaccess my storage, need syntax help)

2024-01-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 9:35 PM gene heskett wrote: > On 1/17/24 19:54, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Andy Smith wrote: > ... > >> Then there will just be people going by taste. > >> > >> Personally I still put them directly on drives. If I ever get taken > >> out by one of those crappy

Re: To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannotaccess my storage, need syntax help)

2024-01-17 Thread gene heskett
On 1/17/24 19:54, Steve McIntyre wrote: Andy Smith wrote: The newer set of people recommending partitions are mostly doing so because there's been a few incidents of "helpful" PC motherboards detecting on boot what they think is a corrupt GPT, and replacing it with a blank one, damaging the