On Sun, 2024-07-28 at 07:52 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 27Jul2024 10:32, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 19:07 -0700, Gregorio Gervasio Jr. wrote:
> > > It's not?  I had the same thing and just ran "btrfs replace" on
> > > each
> > > BTRFS partition.
> > > 
> > The man page refers explicitly to "device" and the examples I've
> > seen
> > all use devices rather than partitions, but of course that may not
> > mean
> > anything.
> 
> This might just be terminology. /dev/sda is a drive and /dev/sda1 is
> a 
> partition, but both are devices in the /dev sense. And filesystems 
> really don't care - they just want an addressable chunk of disc. You 
> could put a filesystem on a whole disc if you were happy to trash the
> partition table (i.e. not have one at all).
> 
> So "device" is arguably a more correct term anyway.

Certainly.

poc
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