On 19.11.2014 13:39, Johannes Kastl wrote:
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On 19.11.2014 James Knott wrote:
That's certainly the case with today's large disks, but it wasn't always that way. A few years ago, I used one drive for the OS and one for /home. The drive containing /home was on a removable tray, so it could be removed and fully protected when installing a new system.
And what good would using the whole disk (/dev/sdx) instead of the only partition on that disk (/dev/sdx1) do in this case?
I've asked uncle Google and there might be a use-case: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_encryption - http://sgros.blogspot.cz/2013/01/partition-vs-whole-disk-and-creating.html HTH Lukas -- Lukas Ocilka, Systems Management (Yast) Team Leader Cloud & Systems Management Department, SUSE Linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org