[OT] info about filesystem directly on disk device and not partition

[Roberto Ragusa]

Gianluca Cecchi wrote:

> So creating for example an ext3 filesystem directly on the /dev/sda device?
> Does this imply any risk/problem?

No, but BIOS or other operating systems could be a little confused.

> Does it change anything if the underlying device is instead managed by
> device-mapper-multipath, so for example the device name is
> /dev/mapper/mpath1?

No problem for me when using dm-crypt on entire disks.

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