From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from y235201.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp ([118.243.235.201]:57512 "EHLO mactop" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754108Ab3EAIJQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 May 2013 04:09:16 -0400 Received: from [10.81.1.3] (mydomain.com [10.81.1.3]) by mactop (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2295FFFB for ; Wed, 1 May 2013 16:59:35 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <5180CB66.9030803@parallels.com> Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 16:59:34 +0900 From: dima MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Best Practice - Partition, or not? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/01/2013 04:51 PM, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello > > If I want to manage a complete disk with btrfs, what's the "Best Practice"? > Would it be best to create the btrfs filesystem on "/dev/sdb", or would it be > better to create just one partition from start to end and then do "mkfs.btrfs > /dev/sdb1"? > > Would the same recomendation hold true, if we're talking about huge disks, > like 4TB or so? > > Cross platform compatibility (OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, …) is of no matter to > me. > > Thanks, > Alexander (NB: grub will not boot from "/dev/sdb", selinux will)