Is partitioning required?

[Tony Pursell]

On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 16:14 +0000, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:32:31 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
> 
> >> Not strictly necessary, but a very good idea nontheless.  It can be
> >> helpful, for example, if you have a boot sector that bootloaders can
> >> install on.  Also, without a partition table, other low level disk
> >> utilities or OS may, at some point, simply overwrite parts of the hard
> >> drive without warning (as they would assume the hd is blank)
> > 
> > Have a look at it with gparted, and use that to put a partition on it,
> > which will be /dev/sdb1.  Formatting the disk probably just put it into
> > 512 byte blocks.  Before you can write to it, sensibly, you need a file
> > system on it, say ext4, but it could be FAT32, ntfs, ext3 or any other
> > file system recognised by the OS.
> 
> It does have an ext3 file system. I don't think you can format a drive 
> without setting up a file system.
> 
> Here's a screenshot of Disk Utility, with the drive formatted:
> http://www.arumes.com/temp/du.png
> 
> -- 
> Regards, Robert                                      http://www.arumes.com
> 
> 

Well, that is fine then!