Missing Partition Tables

I set up a new server this weekend. I started by installing Fedora Core
6 on a 9-gb SCSI drive, then added an 80GB IDE drive, and a 300GB drive.
The system seems to be working just fine. I added the 2 IDE drives to
fstab and the drives mount automatically on bootup.

I'm curious why I see "Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition
table" (both drives) when I run fdisk -l. I thought I created partitions
on both drives. Maybe I forgot to write the partition tables to the
drives, but the drives are working fine. Is that because each drive has
a single partition using the entire drive? Is there any downside to
doing this? Should I backup the files on the drives, partition the
drives, and copy the files back, or just leave it alone? Thanks!


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