On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 15:44, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Levi Waldron said: > > Is this an outdated statement from the Debian installation guide? > > From: 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. " > > steve@gashuffer:~$ df -H > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 144MB 33MB 104MB 24% / > /dev/hda3 5.0GB 1.5GB 3.3GB 32% /usr > /dev/hda5 2.0GB 211MB 1.7GB 12% /var > /dev/hda6 32GB 4.9GB 25GB 17% /home > hadrian:/usr/share/music/ > 40GB 14GB 25GB 36% /home/mp3 > hadrian:/home 13GB 2.5GB 9.4GB 21% /usr/share/Server > > Never had any problems. > > Steve > -- > If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are real > good, you will get out of it. I wonder if that is something to do with fsck - I know that on really large partitions, it can take "bloody well forever", partly due to the amount of data it appears to need to work through things - disproportionately longer than some smaller partitions. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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