Maximum partition size

[Levi Waldron <levi.waldron@utoronto.ca>]

> Is this an outdated statement from the Debian installation guide?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
> -- 


Thanks.  I submitted a bug report on the installation guide under "general"