[wplug] formatting raw devices was: unable to mount disk

[John Harrold]

Sometime in May Jonathan Billings assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| In the future, try creating partitions before formatting a disk. 

just out of curiosity, what's the benefit to creating a partition? i can
understand if you want to put /var, /, /home, etc. on the same disk you
would want to create partitions. is there any benefit if you just want to
create one large disk?

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