> Are there any problems or disadvantages connected with this?
> I have already copied gigabytes of data to the external harddrive and
> don't want to do this again....
Should work without problems, this is a blockdevice like every other, be
it partition or the complete device.
Just be carefull with "smart" applications or OSes which expect a
partitiontable on an HD and try to "fix" that for you - which they
otherwise might not with a correct partition ID set.
-Thomas
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