On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:16:11 +0000, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks Colin. > >Colin Watson wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:10:00PM +0000, Chris Lale wrote: >>> >>>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. > >One of my partitions is 8Gb and I have noticed exactly this behaviour. >It also takes aeons to mount during boot. Do you think I should convert >all my partions to ext3, or just the 8Gb one? My 16Gb partition used to take aeons to mount during boot until I upgraded from the 2.2.12 kernel that my Debian system came with to 2.4.18. I did this by downloading the kernel source from the kernels website, on which I found notes telling me also to upgrade e2fsprogs, init, util-linux and various other things. So I downloaded, compiled and installed everything it told me to, and now that same partition mounts more or less instantly. It's only slow every once in a while - when I get the message "/dev/hda4 has reached maximal mount count; please execute manually: echo ON > /dev/kettle" - which is sufficiently infrequent always to take me by surprise. So, the slow _mount_ as opposed to the slow fsck is probably not a feature of ext2fs but of the version of mount concerned. Well, it looks like that. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
