On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Dirk Moolman wrote:-
If you have a disk, let's say /dev/sda, and instead of creating partitions on the disk, for example /dev/sda1, you use the entire disk, format it, and allocate it to an application - will this cause any problems ?
What do you mean by "allocate it to an application" ? Do you mean something like creating a file system on the device, mounting it on /srv/www and leaving it just for Apache2? If so, it shouldn't. If not, how about giving a concrete example of what you mean?
In short: the application points to and uses /dev/sda (which is mounted), instead of /dev/sda1.
Unless the application is specifically manipulating devices, it's not going to be using /dev/sda but will use whatever directory /dev/sda uses as the mount point. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit | openSUSE 10.3 32bit | openSUSE 11.0a1 SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | openSUSE 10.3 64bit RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC | RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org