Hmm it looks like that Debians want's to avoid user impatience during
excessive e2fsck job at startup. But technically, one can hardly expect
problems - if there were any, they surely appeared already in this list :)
Compared to *some* other OSes, linux makes fs checking after certain number
of rw mounts. When thinks like that happen, some less enlightened users tend
to be "derailed", because they don't expect that. :)
Regards,
Petr
> -----P?vodn? zpr?va-----
> Od: Joel Beach [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Odesl?no: 19. listopadu 2001 11:23
> Komu: [email protected]
> P?edm?t: Re: Maximum (efficient) partition sizes for various
> filesystem types...
>
> I think I'll fix up that bit in the Debian manual myself then if they let
> me....
>
> For what it's worth, here's the paragraph from the "Woody" installation
> manual:
>
> "For new users, personal Debian boxes, home systems, and other single-user
> setups, a single / partition (plus swap) is probably the easiest, simplest
> way to go. It is possible to have problems with this idea, though, with
> larger (20GB) disks. Based on limitations in how ext2 works, avoid any
> single partition greater than 6GB or so."
>
> Joel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Cox" <[email protected]>
> To: "Joel Beach" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Maximum (efficient) partition sizes for various filesystem
> types...
>
>
> > > For instance, the Debian guide says that, due to Ext2 efficiency,
> partitions
> > > greater than 6-7GB shouldn't be created. Is this true for
> Ext3/ReiserFS.
> >
> > I've run several 45-200Gb ext2 and ext3 partitions with no problem. I'm
> not
> > sure what the origin of the Debian guide comemnt is but I've never heard
> > it from an ext2 developer
> >
> > Obviously pick a journalled fs for big partitions 8)
>
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Hi,
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:02:57PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> Hmm it looks like that Debians want's to avoid user impatience during
> excessive e2fsck job at startup. But technically, one can hardly expect
> problems - if there were any, they surely appeared already in this list :)
>
> Compared to *some* other OSes, linux makes fs checking after certain number
> of rw mounts. When thinks like that happen, some less enlightened users tend
> to be "derailed", because they don't expect that. :)
It's configurable: "man tune2fs".
Cheers,
Stephen