[Cialug] Don't do this...

[kristau]

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.

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