with/no fdisk when adding disk

[Liam Proven]

On 29 August 2016 at 03:36, Ops Cloud <ops at 19cloud.net> wrote:
> 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?


Yes, you should partition it.

It is possible to use raw disk devices but it's very inflexible and
it's nonstandard -- so you might have problems reading the drives from
other machines, or from a boot medium, if you have problems.

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