Re: [OT] info about filesystem directly on disk device and not partition

2010-03-25 Thread Roberto Ragusa
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

Re: [OT] info about filesystem directly on disk device and not partition

2010-03-24 Thread Rick Stevens
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

Re: [OT] info about filesystem directly on disk device and not partition

2010-03-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
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