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Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...?



On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:43:55 +0200
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 02:41:02PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > On 2020-08-19 03:03, Urs Thuermann wrote:  
> > >David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> writes:  
> >   
> > >>When using a drive as backup media, are there likely use-cases
> > >>that benefit from configuring the drive with no partition, a
> > >>single PV, single VG, single LV, and single filesystem vs.
> > >>configuring the drive with a single partition, single UUID fstab
> > >>entry, and single filesystem?  
> 
> Contraty to the other (very valid) points, my backups are always on
> a LUKS drive, no partition table. Rationale is, should I lose it, the
> less visible information the better. Best if it looks like a broken
> USB stick. No partition table looks (nearly) broken :-)
> 

A number of them come formatted that way. FAT32, no partitions.

-- 
Joe


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