17 Nov
2011
17 Nov
'11
4:53 p.m.
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Jon Detert wrote:
One thing I do avoid, however, is partitioning the virtual disks that might need to grow. This is because of the pain described in part below. The kernel often seems to have a hard time letting go of it's view of the partition table - either i have to umount the partition, or reboot. However, if i use the disk unpartitioned, the kernel has no prob, and I can *extend and/or resize*fs without umount or reboot.
I think that's the main message to take away from this. There's no obvious benefit of having partitions over having whole disks.
jh