You are not logged in.
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
#1 2012-06-09 15:37:00
- mloskot
- Member
- From: London, United Kingdom
- Registered: 2012-06-01
- Posts: 86
- Website
Format a device: create partition step missing?
Folks,
I think the Format a device is missing step about creating new partition, before creating filesystem with mkfs command in the step 2. Am I right or the current content is complete?
Mateusz Loskot | github | archlinux-config
Arch (x86-64) | ThinkPad T400 | Intel P8600| Intel i915
Arch (x86-64) | ThinkPad W700 | Intel T9600 | NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M
Offline
#2 2012-06-09 15:53:30
- tomk
- Forum Fellow
- From: Ireland
- Registered: 2004-07-21
- Posts: 9,839
Re: Format a device: create partition step missing?
You are right.
The article is clearly marked as a stub, so feel free to expand it as you see fit.
Offline
#3 2012-06-09 15:54:54
- ewaller
- Administrator
- From: Pasadena, CA
- Registered: 2009-07-13
- Posts: 19,787
Re: Format a device: create partition step missing?
I had not seen that article before. It probably could use some work; notably by clarifying what is trying to document.
It appears that the article targets using the entire device for a file system rather than partitioning the device and creating a file system on each partition. This is useful for things link thumb drives. If my assumption as to the purpose of the article is correct, then no, there is not a missing step.
You are correct if the purpose of the article was to document how to manage a multi-partition drive. In any event, it is not my wiki article, but this is how I interpret it.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature -- Michael Faraday
Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. -- Alan Turing
---
How to Ask Questions the Smart Way
Online
#4 2012-06-09 16:44:58
- mloskot
- Member
- From: London, United Kingdom
- Registered: 2012-06-01
- Posts: 86
- Website
Re: Format a device: create partition step missing?
It appears that the article targets using the entire device for a file system rather than partitioning the device and creating a file system on each partition.
Hmm, how do you force fdisk to use entire device without even a single partition created?
AFAIK, for example, you can't mkfs on /dev/sdb, but /dev/sdb1.
Mateusz Loskot | github | archlinux-config
Arch (x86-64) | ThinkPad T400 | Intel P8600| Intel i915
Arch (x86-64) | ThinkPad W700 | Intel T9600 | NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M
Offline
#5 2012-06-09 16:50:09
- ewaller
- Administrator
- From: Pasadena, CA
- Registered: 2009-07-13
- Posts: 19,787
Re: Format a device: create partition step missing?
AFAIK, for example, you can't mkfs on /dev/sdb, but /dev/sdb1.
Sure you can. When you mount it, you just mount /dev/sdx rather than /dev/sdx1, sdx2...
I have a collection of thumbdrives formatted with ext2 in just that manner
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature -- Michael Faraday
Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. -- Alan Turing
---
How to Ask Questions the Smart Way
Online