From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
To: Stefan Malte Schumacher <s.schumacher@netcologne.de>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partition tables / Output of parted
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 23:30:43 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16894659.LPcZdlAJqm@xev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140604111916.GB1657@mars>
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 13:19:16 Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote:
> I have created multiple filesystems with btrfs, in all cases directly
> on the devices themself without creating partitions beforehand.
I do that sometimes, it works well. I've done the same thing with Ext2/3 in
the past as well, it's no big deal.
> Now,
> if I open the disks containing the multi-device filesystem in parted
> it outputs the partion table as loop and shows one partition with
> btrfs which covers the whole disk.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-May/002840.html
A Google search on "Partition Table: loop" turned up the above explanation as
the third result.
> I am unsure how to interpret this output. Two possible explanations
> come to mind: a) Btrfs does create partitions, but only if a filesystem
> spans multiple devices or b) the output of parted is faulty and no actual
> partition is created in both cases.
BTRFS doesn't create partitions.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-04 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-04 11:19 Partition tables / Output of parted Stefan Malte Schumacher
2014-06-04 13:30 ` Russell Coker [this message]
2014-06-04 14:08 ` Mike Fleetwood
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