>>Is using /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1 for a fs safe to do? (I've never
>>read anything authoritative on this subject)
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> A block device is a block device is a ... It is safe, as long as no
> other tool tries to access /dev/sdb. In particular, if anything tries
> to partition /dev/sdb or to install a boot loader on /dev/sdb then it
> will overwrite the first superblock of the XFS partition. You are
> gaining a little extra space, at the risk that some other disk tool
> will accidentally destroy your filesystem.
The main idea is that LVM isn't required to resize the disk. A
`xfs_growfs /mnt/sdb` is sufficient
Is there a simple way to resize a partition with a fs inside it?
I do appreciate the warning, I see this every time I load fdisk:
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
w(rite)
I tried to "correct" the invalid flag once and the fs was unmountable.
It did get fixed from a xfs_repair but I don't know if there was any
actual damage to the fs? It is only a test fs at the moment and mostly
empty so there was no indication of data loss.
Cheers,
ds
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