Re: 60 gig drive
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Debian Ghost wrote:
> I was thinking about getting a 60 gig hard drive and was wondering
> what linux constraints were on having a drive that big. Would I be
As we've been discussing lately large hard drives can cause a ruckus with
older disk utilities. In some cases your BIOS can create a nuisance but
since the BIOS isn't really needed for Linux this is only a nuisance for a
few things (like where your kernel is located on the disk).
> able to have one large 60 gig partition or would I have to break it up
> into several smaller partitions?
Ext2fs has a partition limit of 2 terabytes, which ought to be enough for
at least another 2 or 3 years. <g>
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