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

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:44:36 -0700,
  Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, a partition table doesn't take any capacity away
> from a drive so there's really no need to skip partitioning other than
> laziness. :-)  (and yes, I can be a lazy cuss)

This can make a difference for live usb devices. There is differing file
system support depending on whether syslinux or isolinux gets used. Notably
NTFS only works for one of the two. This is an issue when you want both
images over 4 GiB and Windows compatibility.