Josh Triplett wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: wishlist > > When installing a virtual machine, I'd really like to use the entire > unpartitioned virtual disk as a filesystem, rather than partitioning > it. Doing so then makes the virtual disk contain a filesystem image > directly, which I can more easily mount from the host OS. However, > debian-installer does not let me create a filesystem directly on a > disk device; choosing a disk device only offers me the option of > partitioning it.
It just as easy to mount virtual disks, image files with a tool called kpartx. Its packaged in debian, since lenny for itself and before that in multipath-tools It sets up loopdevices against the image so that every partition is easily mounted. > > Similarly, I might want to use disks directly when doing RAID and/or > LVM, rather than creating and using partitions. > Better use disks with one partition on them see. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/initdisks.html why. regards //Peter -- bitrunner 0708-460260 Andra Långgatan 28 41327 Göteborg Sweden
