[mythtv-users] New drive: skip partition table?

[Karl Dietz]

On 02.01.2013 00:22, Preston Crow wrote:
> I just installed a new drive. I have an SSD for boot/OS, so the new
> drive is just one large file system for media. Is there anything wrong
> with creating the file system on the raw disk device, using the whole
> drive, instead of creating a single large partition?

I would not do that as you gain nothing (maybe 1mb of space due to
alignment) but there are small risks of data loss due to pilot error.

A partition table / EFI/GPT label helps with preventing accidental data
loss when you boot another operating system... ("found an empty disk,
want me to format it?")

Regards,
Karl