From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Joel Beach <joelbeach@optushome.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maximum (efficient) partition sizes for various filesystem types...
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:56:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011119155654.C11351@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E165lCN-00061N-00@the-village.bc.nu> <001401c170e4$1d890d20$1e50a8c0@kinslayer>
In-Reply-To: <001401c170e4$1d890d20$1e50a8c0@kinslayer>
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...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-19 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-19 8:26 Maximum (efficient) partition sizes for various filesystem types Joel Beach
2001-11-19 9:58 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-19 10:22 ` Joel Beach
2001-11-19 23:56 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2001-11-22 20:30 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-11-23 9:09 ` Hans Reiser
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2001-11-20 19:24 Dan Merillat
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