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