aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom carlos e r wrote begin pgp signed message hash sha1 thursday 20080214 1054 0500 aaron kulkis wrote recall oracle gets even better performance use raw disk partition capable managing block placement raw disk gets much better perfomance using disk space filesystem driver said decides use whole disk includes 1 2 blocks normally reserved partition table part raw block device hes begging data loss disk ever removed system put another reason hey partition table makes sense must problem ill remake first partition use whole diskand wham first 512 1024 bytes overwritten next step fire sysadmin reading logbook making disk image first p ive seen crazy things happen especially outage theyre trying get system back stress people start forgetting obvious things best thing set failure drawback using partition table making whole disk part partition one pennys worth disk space drawback mishap someone forgot disk using partition table space real data low end probably hundreds dollars tue 05 aug 2008 180719 0500 opensuse use entire disk partition