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Article #1999Re: boot partition too big ??
From: earth.rc5
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:00
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On 15 Mar 2000 01:23:43 GMT, Vikram V Asrani <vikram@eecs.umich.edu> wrote: >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. i dont think so if linux is up it dosent mether how big a parition is i use a 15.2 gb hd as one pariton and it works nice if u want to very fast u could use the riserfs. this is a journals file system. your system could crash (ie power off) and the riserfs ist back in secounds
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