Bug#166838: marked as done (general: outdated ext2 partition size limitations given in installation manual)
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Subject: general: outdated ext2 partition size limitations given in installation manual
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There is an outdated statement from the Debian installation guide - see
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html#s6.4
"Based on limitations in how ext2 works, avoid any single partition
greater than 6GB or so. "
This would be pretty annoying, and unnecessary, with a 120GB hard drive!
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> There is an outdated statement from the Debian installation guide -
> see
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html#s6.4
>
> "Based on limitations in how ext2 works, avoid any single partition
> greater than 6GB or so. "
>
> This would be pretty annoying, and unnecessary, with a 120GB hard
> drive!
No, I stand by my statement. The fsck time on ext2 disks seems to
scale at O(n^2) based on disk size so it's not a good idea to have
huge ext2 partitions. I'll be a bit more explicit in the docs but
this is not a bug.
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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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