Re: To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help)

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Andy Smith wrote:
>
>The newer set of people recommending partitions are mostly doing so
>because there's been a few incidents of "helpful" PC motherboards
>detecting on boot what they think is a corrupt GPT, and replacing it
>with a blank one, damaging the RAID. This is a real thing that has
>happened to more than one person; it even got linked on Hacker News
>I believe.
>
>Then there will just be people going by taste.
>
>Personally I still put them directly on drives. If I ever get taken
>out by one of those crappy motherboards, I reserve the right to get
>a different religion. ð???

I'm clearly a member of a third group of people,,, :-)

Putting partitions on the RAID drives helps *me* identify them.

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