Re: Partions (or lack thereof) and xfs repair

[Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 AndyLiebman@xxxxxxx wrote:

>> "mkfs.xfs /dev/sda"
> 
> I certainly don't consider myself to be an expert, but i've never heard of
> doing this before, and i'm kinda surprised that it works at all.  What was
> the justification for formatting a block device, rather than a partition
> XFS?

Why create a partition table when you're going to use the whole device
anyway ?  ;-)
I've done this several times with different filesystems (Ext2, Reiser,
XFS) and I never got into any trouble,

Martin.
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