[mythtv-users] New drive: skip partition table?

Gary Buhrmaster gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com
Tue Jan 1 23:52:48 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Preston Crow
<pc-mythtv08a at crowcastle.net> wrote:
> I just installed a new drive.  I have an SSD for boot/OS, so the new drive
> is just one large file system for media.  Is there anything wrong with
> creating the file system on the raw disk device, using the whole drive,
> instead of creating a single large partition?

No, but be aware that some utilities may be confused,
and so may your backup sysadm (who may not be an
expert like you are).  Note that if you are using ZFS
on Solaris (or various derivatives) there are strong
advantages to using partitionless disks.

Gary


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