Partition in debian

From: Juha (juhasamy_at_luukku.com)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:02:33 +0300

I'll by a new computer with two harddisc. One for windows(80g) and other
for debian linux(120g). How to partition the linux disk? I'll make
partitions at leat for directories: /swap and /boot. The rest for root
dir. Thus directory / would be over hundred gigas.

Debian installation manual says that it is no good to make partitions over
6g because of limitations of ext2 file system. Why is this limitation and
what is the problem with bigger partitions? Can the Debian linux be
installed on an other file system in which the partition size is no problem?

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