Hal Vaughan wrote: > I've created RAIDs in the past where I just used the entire drive and > ones where I created a single partition on the drives and used the > partition. It seems that there is no real difference in behavior. > > If I'm planning on using a drive for a RAID, is there any reason I > should create a single partition spanning the entire drive and using > that instead of just using the drive in its entirety for the RAID? > > Thanks! > > Hal
AFAIK there is no _need_ to use a partition, as you said, the behaviour is going to be the same either way. One possible benefit (though there are other ways around this, `mdadm --query` for example), of having a single large partition is that it allows you to set the partition type to linux-raid-autodetect (FD) which if nothing else gives an obvious indicator as to the disk's use, especially if you ever have to recover from it in another system. I use partitions in my set-up for this reason, it makes it _slightly_ more fool-proof. cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
