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From: dima <dolenin@parallels.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Best Practice - Partition, or not?
Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 16:59:34 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5180CB66.9030803@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20130501T094600-451@post.gmane.org>

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)

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-01  8:09 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 [this message]
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

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