Re: boot partition too big ??

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From: Vikram V Asrani
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:00

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earth.rc5@gmx.net wrote:
=> to solve this create a 5 mb partition under the 1024 cylinder limit or
=> use a boot disk

Also never a good idea to keep a partition larger than 1 Gb unless
absolutely necessary. Remember, that each time at bootup, the kernel checks
for the validity of the partition and performs a fsck (file system check) if
necessary. For large partitions this takes a long time. 

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Vikram.V.Asrani (vikram@eecs.umich.edu)

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