Re: Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For Intel x86 - Chapter 6 - Partitioning for Debian

[Markus Schabel <markus.schabel@tgm.ac.at>]

Myrealbox wrote:

> Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For Intel x86 - Chapter 6 - 
> Partitioning for Debian
>
> "Based on limitations in how ext2 works, avoid any single partition 
> greater than 6GB or so. "
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html
>
> I'm really confused about this.  I've been running a 37GB ext2 
> partition without any problems, but I want to be safe when I'm doing 
> this.  When I asked around, i couldn't find anyone else who knew about 
> this limitation.
>
>
> I hope you can help clarify this..
> Cheers,
> Sy


I guess that is because of _very_ long fsck-times when your partition 
gets not correctly unmounted, with 6 Gigs the time is acceptable, with 
more you should use another filesystem like ext3, xfs, jfs or reiserfs.

markus