On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 11:10, Chris Lale wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > On my 40 GB drive, I went with: > > > > / 1 GB > > swap 1/2 GB > > /opt 2 GB > > /usr 8 GB > > /var 4 GB > > /home 24 GB > > I read in the Debian installation manual (v.3.0.24, 24th May 2002 > section 6.4) that partitions greater than about 6Gb should be avoided. > Does anyone know if this true? If so, why? > > Cheers, > > Chris. > -- > : ___ Chris Lale <ctlale@coolscience.co.uk> : > : / \ : > : | <_/ My PC runs Debian GNU/Linux 3.0. : > : \ Robust, secure and free operating system + applications. : > : \ Available at http://www.debian.org : Knowing how long fsck takes on larger ext2 partitions, I would say that it appears to have exponential load relative to the size and number of files on a partition, and may be prone to complexity stressing the review/rebuild process, but that may also be a stress of the filesystem rather than Linux itself. That said, do you split it into several partitions and use RAID on them - I can't see that as providing a hint of a fraction of the actual disk operation performance ;) -- 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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