[mythtv-users] Single partition or whole disk
Ramon Hofer
ramonhofer at bluewin.ch
Tue Jul 3 07:41:07 UTC 2012
Hi all
I wanted to switch the filesystem from jfs to xfs for my recording disk.
It's a 2 TB WD green drive. I have second one of the same type and I
wanted to partition it with xfs to copy the recording from the old jfs
drive.
I have accidentally written the filesystem to the whole disk:
~# mkfs.xfs /dev/sdk
I copied all the recordings while mythtv was stopped. Today I saw that I
have the jfs filesystem on the old drive on a single partition (sdi1)
and the xfs filesystem on the new drive directly (sdk):
/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
I didn't know that this is even possible. But since I want to use the
whole drive I wonder if this is ok or (and why) it's better to create
one big partition over the drive.
Best regards
Ramon
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