On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:55:03 +0100 Fredrik Staxeng wrote: > "Dmitrij D. Czarkoff" <czark...@gmail.com> writes: > > >So you state that the fact that "if one chooses to use the whole disk, > >the whole disk is used" needs further documentation? > > Once upon a time, mkfs used to make a 10-second pause before starting. > That's the way you do it. > >
It's a fair point that may be accepted only when a partitiono table was already there but I can't see anyone spending time for no gain for the vast majority. Also the OP wrote over his partition table and not the data.
