Re: Reason to use a partition

Hello Stan, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > As I replied on XFS, there's ZERO reason for putting one partition on a > dedicated mythTV recording drive. And since this is an Advanced Format > drive, you instantly misaligned XFS by creating that partition. None of > the Squeeze partitioning tools understa

Re: Reason to use a partition

On Die, 2012-07-03 at 03:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/3/2012 3:16 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:04:04 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > > > >> Hello Ramon, > >> > >> Ramon Hofer wrote: > >>> /dev/sdi1 jfs1.9T 1.9T 3.9G 100% /mnt/recordings /dev/sdk > >>>

Re: Reason to use a partition

On 7/3/2012 3:16 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:04:04 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > >> Hello Ramon, >> >> Ramon Hofer wrote: >>> /dev/sdi1 jfs1.9T 1.9T 3.9G 100% /mnt/recordings /dev/sdk >>>xfs1.9T 1.9T 3.3G 100% /mnt/recordings_temp >>> >>> Is there a re

Re: Reason to use a partition

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:04:04 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Ramon, > > Ramon Hofer wrote: >> /dev/sdi1 jfs1.9T 1.9T 3.9G 100% /mnt/recordings /dev/sdk >>xfs1.9T 1.9T 3.3G 100% /mnt/recordings_temp >> >> Is there a reason why one should use a partition spanning the

Re: Reason to use a partition

Hello Ramon, Ramon Hofer wrote: > /dev/sdi1 jfs1.9T 1.9T 3.9G 100% /mnt/recordings > /dev/sdk xfs1.9T 1.9T 3.3G 100% /mnt/recordings_temp > > Is there a reason why one should use a partition spanning the whole disk > instead of creating the filesystem directly on the disk

Reason to use a partition

Hi all I have accidentally found that it's possible to use a whole disk instead of a partition spanning a whole disk. I have two 2 TB disks. One (sdi) has a partition with jfs and the other (sdk) has xfs directly on the disk: /dev/sdi1 jfs1.9T 1.9T 3.9G 100% /mnt/recordings /dev/sdk