Re: Disk Partition Size

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

KoReE said:
> Does anyone know what the largest partition size that the 2.2.x kernels
> can handle is?

Bigger than the largest disk available, I'm sure.  (At least in
theory.  In practice, I know people who have made 30+ GB filesystems.)

> This is with a new BIOS, so the 1024 cylinders thing
> should not be a problem.

Just to be safe, make a small /boot as your first partition.  Then you
don't have to worry about it.

> I've been looking through www.linuxdoc.org, but
> haven't yet found anything...

Why not use www.silug.org/LDP/?  :-)

BTW, fix your mailer.  Your email is coming with the following header:

    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN

The charset should be US-ASCII or ISO-8859-1.

Steve
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