On 11/19/2014 12:03 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Arvin Schnell composed on 2014-11-19 10:48 (UTC+0100):
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 09:41:34AM +0100, Johannes Kastl wrote:
Bernhard Voelker wrote:
yeah, and while at it, it would be nice to use and format a complete disk like /dev/sdb for e.g. /home.
Just out of curiosity, what is the advantage of using the whole disk? Creation one partition and using that does not seem to be that much work.
The reason I heard is for network storage where you can resize the disk online. Then you just have to resize the filesystem and your're done.
Conceptually, I can't see a desirable outcome from this. If it's a filesystem on a whole disk, the only choices are do nothing and make it smaller, and if smaller, to what end? Without partitioning, any space freed would be inaccessible.
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. Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org