On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 23:06:56 +0200, Kai Krakow wrote: > If you want to use it as a backup, and it's external (which it should > be), by all means: partition it. It acts as a protection layer against > silly OSes that may simply wipe data at the beginning (maybe by > accident) because there is no partition and they cannot detect that > there is data stored on the disk, and this destroy your fs superblock - > which is what you don't want.
That's an excellent point. I've just started using unpartitioned disks with btrfs, but they are safely tucked away inside my computer. I can see how having no partition table on an external disk is asking for trouble. -- Neil Bothwick Data to Picard: 'No, Captain, I do NOT run WINDOWS!'
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