Format whole drive vs. partition

Michael Hipp michael at redmule.com
Sat Dec 29 10:42:19 PST 2012


On 12/29/2012 12:36 PM, Dan Martin wrote:
> If you were talking about /dev/sdb, or any other additional drive, I think it would
> be reasonable to use the entire disk, rather than partition it.

Using the whole drive is what I do for bulk storage, not the O/S partitions 
(root, swap, etc.).

Thanks,
Michael



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