with/no fdisk when adding disk

[Peter Silva]

There are many options...  fdisk is a dos/windows oriented
partitioner.  I have never used fdisk on linux.  The "normal" tool for
that is "parted", (or the gui version: gparted) but there are also
volume managers, such as lvm, and filesystems that subsume volume
management, such as btrfs, or zfs.

There isn't a simple answer to your question.   there are many
different answers for many different situations.   What is the file
system for?  (laptop/server, are you going to use multiple disks
together to make one virtual disk?, removable media?, accessible by
multiple OS's? which OSes?)



On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Ops Cloud <ops at 19cloud.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After adding a disk, we generally fdisk it, then mkfs, then mount.
> But I found even no fdisk, mkfs can be done against the raw disk.
> So, what's the best practices for this? with fdisk or no fdisk?
>
> thanks.
>
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