On Tue, Nov 19 '02 at 14:26, Murthy Kambhampaty wrote: > >> I am using entire disks. > >Bad idea, why don't you want to at last put a partition table on it, > >with one big partition, that uses the whole disk ... or is this what you > >had in mind? > Err, is there a reason why this is a bad idea? To add my 0.02 Euro: IMHO it's an bad idea, because you save a few MB, but confues everything. The kernel will work fine, but quite a lot of tools wont, and you might forget to tell your follow admint what you did and after a crash he will assume the disks are wiped. -- Goetz Bock (c) 2002 as blacknet.de - Munich - Germany /"\ IT Consultant GNU FDL 1.1 secure mobile Linux everNETting \ / X ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML email & microsoft attachments / \ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/