Re: [linux-lvm] Whole Disk Usage with LVM ...

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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.
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