Re: Maximum (efficient) partition sizes for various filesystem types...

From: Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 18:56:54 EST


On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:22:38PM +1100, Joel Beach wrote:
> 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."
>

No. They mean limitations of relatively old IDE hardware...
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