Re: partition info help, please

From: smoky_man (smoky_man_at_noemail.com)
Date: 03/10/04

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    Randy Crawford <joe@burgershack.com> wrote in
    news:aog2c.48503$OH4.31180@fe2.texas.rr.com:

    > I think it depends on the filesystem, but right now, ext2 and ext3 seem
    > to top out at 500 GB without using a volume manager (to unify multiple
    > disks into one partition). But this may actually depend on which distro
    > you use. The 500 GB limit that I saw was on a year-old version of Suse.
    >
    > But since today's disks seem to top out at about 320 GB, even a one-disk
    > size limit of 500 GB is effectively no limit at all.
    >
    > BTW, if your users' data is at all precious, you may want to mirror or
    > RAID the disks to provide some fault tolerance. 300+ GB is a lot of
    > data to lose when a disk fails.
    >
    > Randy
    >
    Thank you very much for the information.

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