[clug] Dumb user question: 2+TB disks, MBR & BIOS...

Carlo Hamalainen carlo.hamalainen at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 04:42:25 MST 2013


On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Kim Holburn <kim.holburn at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like this idea.  Adding partitions adds an extra layer to access a disk.
>  No partitions makes it slightly faster. Nothing wrong with that. There is
> no need to use partions unless you really need to use them.
>

Can you quantify how much faster it is? Just curious as I have a few 1Tb
drives with a single ext4 partition, used for backups etc.

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Carlo Hamalainen
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