[Novalug] For discussion: better to partition or not partition?

Mark Smith mark@winksmith.com
Thu May 28 18:52:04 EDT 2009


On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 02:17:34PM -0400, Richard Ertel wrote:
> my understanding of partitioning is that you always need at least 1
> partition (if you want to use the drive). i imagine if you format a
> drive that has no partitions, one will be automatically made for you.

not true.  you can make a fs directly onto a device w/o
a partition table.  i don't know at what point that became
true, but it's true right now.

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Mark Smith
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