On 14:41 14 Mar 2003, Isaac Claymore <clay@dawning.com.cn> wrote: | Yesterday I added a new disk to my box (sdb), and tried to 'mke2fs -j | /dev/sdb' without making a partition on it firstly. mke2fs uttered | some warning message asking me to confirm, and went on happily. | | Everything works fine after that, but I'm just wondering whether | there's any difference or not between making fs on the whole block | device and on a partition of it? Only that there's no partition table. Linux scans for partition tables but should cope anyway if you don't have one provided you don't try to use /dev/sdb1 etc. I've got ext3 on a DVD-RAM with no partition table. It's all cool. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 cs@zip.com.au http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ An old bike is not a Thing, it is a Process. - David Ownby <ownbyd@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu> _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
