[BBLISA] archiving to small disks to big disks

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
> Behalf Of Brian McAllister
> 
> I see two choices:
> 
> 1) Create 1 partition per disk and copy many original disks to it.
> 
> 2) Create many partitions, each sized slightly larger than the space
>    required for each original disk.
> 
> Option 1 is easier and possibly more convenient to use.
> 
> Option 2 seems potentially more robust.
> 
> Thoughts ?

I don't see any advantage to option 2.
In fact, even with option 1, why partition?  Just mkfs each raw device
directly.