Re: [opensuse] Use entire disk, and not a partition Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Thursday 2008-02-14 at 10:41 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
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>> Yes...you don't have a partition table.
>> While Linux can use that...you're really violating all
>> kinds of standards.
>> All that for the purpose of saving 1 block or 2 blocks
>> (512 - 1024 bytes) is normally not a good tradeoff.
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>> I would consider this sort of thing appropriate
>> for a deep-space probe which will never return to
>> Earth MUCH more than any disk drive which is going
>> to stay here, and has a real chance (say for
>> data recovery or whatever) get thrown into another
>> system.
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> X'-)
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> I have seen partitionless usb memory sticks somewhere.
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> As for the clueless technician overwriting the non existing partition 
> table... shame and wrath unto him/her!  :-P


Hey, everybody is a newbie at some point..and even
relatively experienced admins who is new to the idea
of an Oracle database using raw partitions could
get caught by this.

Frankly, the substantial increase in risk isn't worth
512 - 1024 BYTES of disk space -- it also completely
eliminates the chance of scavanging unused disk
space at the end of the disk for other purposes
(either another table, crash-dump storage, or whatever)


