> From: Chris Angelico [mailto:ros...@gmail.com] > > Most filesystems work on the basis of partitions. I've never seen any > that work directly on the disk, always on a partition.
Sorry, you're wrong about that. Nowadays linux is leaning more and more toward using LVM by default, in which case you "pvcreate" the raw device, no partitions. BTRFS is gaining ground, I expect it'll be the default filesystem superseding ext4 in about a year. BTRFS can work on whole devices or partitions, with the default being to work on the whole disk. ZFS is the same thing ... by default assumes whole disk, in fact you have to do some extra hoops in order to get it to work on partitions, and partitioning is officially discouraged in the best practices guide. And as mentioned in this thread, ext4 works just as well on partition or whole disk; ext4 is agnostic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
