On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:43:55 +0200 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 02:41:02PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > On 2020-08-19 03:03, Urs Thuermann wrote: > > >David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> writes: > > > > >>When using a drive as backup media, are there likely use-cases > > >>that benefit from configuring the drive with no partition, a > > >>single PV, single VG, single LV, and single filesystem vs. > > >>configuring the drive with a single partition, single UUID fstab > > >>entry, and single filesystem? > > Contraty to the other (very valid) points, my backups are always on > a LUKS drive, no partition table. Rationale is, should I lose it, the > less visible information the better. Best if it looks like a broken > USB stick. No partition table looks (nearly) broken :-) >
A number of them come formatted that way. FAT32, no partitions. -- Joe
