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Subject: Re: btrfs on whole disk (no partitions)
From: Imran Geriskovan <imran.geriskovan@gmail.com>
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On 6/18/14, Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegielka@gmail.com> wrote:
> I created btrfs directly to disk using such a scheme (no partitions):
> cd /mnt
> btrfs subvolume create __active
> btrfs subvolume create __active/rootvol
> Everything works fine. Is such a solution is recommended? In my
> opinion, the creation of the partitions seems to be completely
> unnecessary if you can use btrfs.

Partitionless and subvolumeless desktop setup (everything is in
default subvolume) is operational here since kernel 3.10 (now 3.14).
No issues.

Regards, Imran