Re: Reason to use a partition

[Ramon Hofer <ramonhofer@bluewin.ch>]

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:04:04 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:

> Hello Ramon,
> 
> Ramon Hofer <ramonhofer@bluewin.ch> wrote:
>> /dev/sdi1      jfs    1.9T  1.9T  3.9G 100% /mnt/recordings /dev/sdk   
>>    xfs    1.9T  1.9T  3.3G 100% /mnt/recordings_temp
>> 
>> Is there a reason why one should use a partition spanning the whole
>> disk instead of creating the filesystem directly on the disk?
> 
> If you use a partition, it is possible to move the partition a little
> bit (a few kilo-/megabytes is usually enough) to align it with the
> blocks of the HDD.
> 
> I don’t know if this is possible when using disks directly. In any case,
> it will be impossible to boot from such a disk, since there’s no room
> for the MBR (or, if there is room for the MBR, the filesystem will be
> unaligned with the disk blocks).
> 
> I therefore would always prefer to use a single-partition layout rather
> than the raw disk.

Thanks for the answer!

I have created a new partition and the filesystem on it.


Cheers
Ramon