Thanks Colin. Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:10:00PM +0000, Chris Lale wrote: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?They're a bit of a pain with ext2 because they'll take geological time to fsck if the system ever shuts down uncleanly. With a journalling filesystem there should be no problem.
One of my partitions is 8Gb and I have noticed exactly this behaviour. It also takes aeons to mount during boot. Do you think I should convert all my partions to ext3, or just the 8Gb one?
(I am cc-ing this message to the Debian installation manual authors via the debian-boot list. Perhaps they may wish to revise the document to include this information.)
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