On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:16:11AM +0000, Chris Lale wrote: > 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 experiences with ext3 have been uniformly good, so I tend to convert even small partitions to it. However, others may have had different experiences. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
