From: Gabriel de Perthuis <g2p.code@gmail.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Best Practice - Partition, or not?
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 09:16:45 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <klqmht$gt7$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20130501T094600-451@post.gmane.org
> 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"?
Partitions (GPT) are always more flexible and future-proof. If you ever
need to shrink the btrfs filesystem and give the space to another
partition, or do a conversion to lvm/bcache/luks (shameless plug:
https://github.com/g2p/blocks ), it'd be stupid to be locked into your
current setup for want of a few megabytes of space before your
filesystem.
> Would the same recomendation hold true, if we're talking about huge
> disks, like 4TB or so?
More so, since it can be infeasible to move this much data.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-01 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-01 7:51 Best Practice - Partition, or not? Alexander Skwar
2013-05-01 7:59 ` dima
2013-05-01 8:37 ` Alexander Skwar
2013-05-01 8:44 ` Russell Coker
2013-05-01 8:50 ` dima
2013-05-01 8:00 ` Hugo Mills
2013-05-01 8:46 ` Helmut Hullen
2013-05-08 7:31 ` Kai Krakow
2013-05-08 16:58 ` George Mitchell
2013-05-01 9:16 ` Gabriel de Perthuis [this message]
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