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