On Friday 14 September 2001 8:48 pm, Simon Oliver wrote:
The drive was a new drive (hdb) and never had a partition table on it. I figure new drives can be turned into partition less drives but once you
got
a table written you must use one unless you low level format it again? I never had a partition table on this hdb drive and had it as well once in reiserfs format so it must work.
Na! You can't have a partition on a physical disk. There has to be either primary or extended partiton/logical drives.
Wrong! If a partition table exists (even an empty one) the program you use to format the device might complain. You can remove the partition table by writing a load of 0's to the device, say /dev/hdb, using `dd` then
Well, I'm not saying there is an advantage - it's just possible!
On one of my systems I have four 80GB IDE disks. These are configured (as
raw devices with no partitions) as a single logical volume of 320GB using
LVM. Why bother with partitions if they are not needed for a particular
application?
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Simon Oliver
----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Webster
the partition-less drive, specifying /dev/hdb as the device.
I stand corrected; I still have a Microsoft mindset I suppose. ;-) But why would you want to go to the trouble of doing this? I see no advantage. With one big block device you can no longer share the drive with another operating system and you can only have one file system on it. Perhaps that's the advantage afterall?
M