[Cialug] Don't do this...

[David Champion]

As far as I can tell, that is how the partition was originally formatted -
this isn't a case where they formatted over the top of an existing sdb1
partition. That would be bad too.

-dc

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:56 AM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:27 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Found a server today where someone had done this:
> >
> > mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb
>
> Oooh, ouch. They had that data backed up before they started, right?
>
> I've seen this done on purpose in virtual environments before. The
> idea being that you can put the filesystem on the raw device so you
> have one less step when you need to expand (saving the partition
> expansion step). Still made me cringe. A partition table doesn't take
> up that much space to make a huge difference, and expanding partitions
> is easy with parted/gparted.
>
> --
> Tired programmer
> Coding late into the night
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