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Re: boot partition too big ??

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From: earth.rc5
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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