[Novalug] For discussion: better to partition or not partition?

[Mark Smith]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:19:12PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:59:14AM +1200, Mark Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:26:05PM +0000, jecottrell3 at comcast.net wrote:
> > > One could argue, and i will, that /dev/sdb *is* a partition, that it's really /dev/sdb0, which just happens to cover the entire drive.
> > 
> > you could argue that theoretically, but the term "partition"
> > actually means "partition table".  "raw" means that there's
> > no partition table.
> 
> That's not quite the definition of raw I grew up with.

true and i agree with you, but in the context of this thread about
partitions or not partitions it seems to be accurate.

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