Bug#456623: debian-installer: Please offer the option of using an unpartitioned disk as an FS

[Peter Skogström <peter.skogstrom@bitrunner.com>]

Josh Triplett wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> When installing a virtual machine, I'd really like to use the entire
> unpartitioned virtual disk as a filesystem, rather than partitioning
> it.  Doing so then makes the virtual disk contain a filesystem image
> directly, which I can more easily mount from the host OS.  However,
> debian-installer does not let me create a filesystem directly on a
> disk device; choosing a disk device only offers me the option of
> partitioning it.

It just as easy to mount virtual disks, image files with a tool called
kpartx. Its packaged in debian, since lenny for itself and before that
in multipath-tools It sets up loopdevices against the image so that
every partition is easily mounted.
> 
> Similarly, I might want to use disks directly when doing RAID and/or
> LVM, rather than creating and using partitions.
> 

Better use disks with one partition on them see.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/initdisks.html why.

regards
//Peter
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