Format whole drive vs. partition

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Michael Hipp <michael at redmule.com> wrote:
> I've been doing this for a while when I intended to use an entire drive
> for one FS. I figure it reclaims a few bytes.
>
>    mkfs -t ext4  /dev/sda
>
> Instead of:
>
>    mkfs -t ext4  /dev/sda1
>
> Then I read an article that said you shouldn't do that, but no
> explanation why not. Any thoughts?
>

I don't format disks unless I need more than 1 partition.  Its worked
fine for me for years.