On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:10:00PM +0000, Chris Lale wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On my 40 GB drive, I went with: > > > > / 1 GB > > swap 1/2 GB > > /opt 2 GB > > /usr 8 GB > > /var 4 GB > > /home 24 GB > > I read in the Debian installation manual (v.3.0.24, 24th May 2002 > section 6.4) that partitions greater than about 6Gb should be avoided. > Does anyone know if this true? If so, why?
They're a bit of a pain with ext2 because they'll take geological time to fsck if the system ever shuts down uncleanly. With a journalling filesystem there should be no problem. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
