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From: Iustin Pop <iusty@k1024.org>
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On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 06:08:58PM -0500, Gaspar Bakos wrote:
> So the questions are:
> - what partition type to choose next time?

In cases where I want to use the whole disk, I usually make the
filesystem directly over the disk (e.g. /dev/sdc) instead of
partitioning it.

Never had any problem with this setup.

Regards,
Iustin