Re: Fedora Core 2 and maximum partition size

From: Micha³ Kosmulski (M.Kosmulski_at_NOSPAM.elka.pw.edu.pl)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:56:54 +0200

> What maximum partition size does Fedora Core 2 supports?
>
> Does it recognizes 200 GB and 250 GB partition sizes ?
If you use the ext3 filesystem (this is the default in most distros),
this should not be a problem.
 From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt:

Filesystem block size: 1kB 2kB 4kB 8kB

File size limit: 16GB 256GB 2048GB 2048GB
Filesystem size limit: 2047GB 8192GB 16384GB 32768GB

And 4 kB block size is the default. So you shouldn't have any problem
with making a partition of 250 GB.

Another question is if you really want a partition so large. Even with
much smaller disks, it is convenient to have at least /home on a
separate partition, so for example if at some moment you choose to
switch to another distro (or change your root filesystem type or
whatever), you can wipe / completely because all your personal data is
on /home which is a separate partition. I also tend to have a separate
partition for data which changes infrequently and which I mount as
read-only to avoid accidentally deleting something form there even if I
do something stupid as root.

Michal

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