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What are the benefits (or drawbacks) in creating file-system directly on hard drive rather than on a partition? [closed]

For an example, what are the advantages (or optionally disadvantages) of creating a Linux file-system (ext3 or ext4) directly on hard drive (i.e mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb) rather than making it on a ...