Ext3 users - Mar 2003 - making an ext3 fs on a whole device

Hi folks,

Yesterday I added a new disk to my box (sdb), and tried to 'mke2fs -j
/dev/sdb' without making a partition on it firstly. mke2fs uttered
some warning message asking me to confirm, and went on happily.

Everything works fine after that, but I'm just wondering whether
there's any difference or not between making fs on the whole block
device and on a partition of it?

Any hint or suggestion is greatly appreciated ;)


Isaac

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On 14:41 14 Mar 2003, Isaac Claymore <clay@dawning.com.cn> wrote:
| Yesterday I added a new disk to my box (sdb), and tried to 'mke2fs -j
| /dev/sdb' without making a partition on it firstly. mke2fs uttered
| some warning message asking me to confirm, and went on happily.
| 
| Everything works fine after that, but I'm just wondering whether
| there's any difference or not between making fs on the whole block
| device and on a partition of it?

Only that there's no partition table.
Linux scans for partition tables but should cope anyway if you don't have
one
provided you don't try to use /dev/sdb1 etc.
I've got ext3 on a DVD-RAM with no partition table. It's all cool.
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