Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
So creating for example an ext3 filesystem directly on the /dev/sda device?
Does this imply any risk/problem?
No, but BIOS or other operating systems could be a little confused.
Does it change anything if the underlying device is instead managed by
On 03/23/2010 03:55 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
Hello,
sorry for the off-topic.
Tipically when I work with LVM on Linux (RHEL/CentOS 5 and/or Fedora
11/12), I create the physical volume directly on the whole disk.
Historically one created a partition on the disk, eventually big as the
whole
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:44:36 -0700,
Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote:
On the other hand, a partition table doesn't take any capacity away
from a drive so there's really no need to skip partitioning other than
laziness. :-) (and yes, I can be a lazy cuss)
This can make a difference