Re: The Linux 64 GiB Limit - was: Re: oops! Should be fdisk broken?

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 03:32:12 +0100 (MET)


From: David Hamm <dhamm@luxbbs.itserve.com>

On 25 Jan 1999, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:

> If you are only going to make a single partition on that raid array,
> don't bother. Just mkfs on the main device and mount that.

Are you saying that you don't have to partition single volume drives? You
can just run mke2fs on the raw device? Like this.
mke2fs /dev/sdb
mount /dev/sdb /mnt/morespace

Yes, you can.
It may confuse some installation scripts, and you cannot have LILO
there, but there is no need for partitions. It is just a 80 GB floppy :-)

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