From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Wol <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
Cc: John Atkins <John@aawcs.co.uk>,
Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@gmail.com>,
linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Missing Superblocks
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:17:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7d1qdbg.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <880c0b3a-a3b8-d8fa-4ea4-bd0a801938d3@youngman.org.uk> (Wol's message of "Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:33:24 +0100")
On 27 Oct 2021, Wol uttered the following:
> On 26/10/2021 10:45, John Atkins wrote:
>> Thanks for the suggestions.
>> No partition ever on these disks.
>
> BAD IDEA ... it *should* be okay, but there are too many rogue programs/utilities out there that think stomping all over a
> partition-free disk is acceptable behaviour ...
There are even some BIOSes (or, rather, UEFI firmwares) that think this
is just fine. Without notice, of course, and often when you do nothing
more than reboot.
> It's bad enough when a GPT or MBR gets trashed, which sadly is not unusual in your scenario, but without partitions you're inviting
> disaster... :-(
Quite. I moved away from raw disk usage long ago: the cost/benefit
tradeoff is just not worth it.
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[not found] <de712291-fa08-b35a-f8fb-6d18b573f3f4@aawcs.co.uk>
2021-10-25 11:01 ` Missing Superblocks John Atkins
[not found] ` <CAAMCDee8fEHGMg7NBNzMq7+kbFHo-4DM0D2T=rNezpPZgKabeg@mail.gmail.com>
2021-10-26 9:45 ` John Atkins
2021-10-27 16:33 ` Wol
2021-10-28 9:52 ` John Atkins
2021-10-28 13:13 ` John Atkins
2021-10-28 17:17 ` Nix [this message]
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