[opensuse-factory] Re: A suggestion for partitioning.

19 Nov 2014

      On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:54, Greg Freemyer  wrote:
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On November 19, 2014 8:32:16 AM EST, "Carlos E. R."  wrote:
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On 2014-11-19 13:49, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
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My use case was data file systems like /home on virtual disks,
i.e., VMs. I usually wouldn't make such a file system smaller, but
extending is easier because the re-partitioning step can be omitted
(as Arvid wrote). On physical disks, I'd most probably not do it.
I think it is just the custom, and that some software complains.
Windows, perhaps.
It also makes sense, on external flash media, not to create a
partition. What for? It makes no sense to waste the space on the
tables, the media is already small and never repartitioned. It is done
with one partition because some software on Windows do not see it and
complain.
Most thumbs used with windows have partition tables, but not all.
Windows does not require them for all situations.
It may only allow FAT to be used if there is not a partition table,
I don't know the rules.
[Climbs upon his soapbox:]

With Win95, Win98 and WinNT3.51, WinNT4.0(prior SP3) FAT32 was possible,
since Windows NT 4.0 SP3 MS allowed FAT32 and NTFS on such Media.

With the introduction of a USB -> SCSI disk emulator the so called
USB-Sticks/-Drives became cheap and thus available to the masses
around 1996 / 1997

As they (USB-Drives) where smaller than the limits of FAT32
(2GB at the time), MS allowed them to be handled similar to
"Big Diskettes" / Superdisk with no partition table

Later, at least for media with more than 2GB, a partition table
was enforced, entry 0 is used in most cases.

For NTFS, MS enforces a partition table, entry 0 is used by default.

Historical:

Superdisk LS-120 / LS-240 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk)
no table, like a big 3.5" diskette

Iomega's ZipDrive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive)
used a Partition Table, part. 0-2 empty, part. 3 the full disk.

SyQuest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syquest)
also used a Partition Table, entry 0 was used.

[Steps down from the soapbox]

  - Yamaban.
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