aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom david bolt wrote wed 13 feb 2008 carlos e r wrote wednesday 20080213 1351 0200 dirk moolman wrote sorry let explain using oracle oracle uses filesystems create datafiles example create files like oradata01system01dbf oradata02users01dbf oradata02 new filesystem created points device devsda instead devsda1 partition sda problem far know isnt much problem isnt reiserfs ext23 xfs support file systems use entire device partition havent tried jfs may also support well dont specifically support itthey dont sanity checking make sure youre attempting use measly 1 2 blocks reserved partition table part filesystem checking name specifically theres way application distinguish difference entire disk partition theyre block devices fact ive even made ext23 reiserfs filesystems within regular file tmp useful trick making floppy disks years ago tue 05 aug 2008 104114 0500 opensuse use entire disk partition