Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:40:35 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Joe Schwartz <rjoe@sierrahill.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file system size Message-ID: <36EFE913.7E960707@tdx.co.uk> References: <199903171733.LAA05462@sierrahill.com>
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Joe Schwartz wrote: > Folks, > > When installing FreeBSD 3.1: > > Is there a limit of 1024 Mb on the first partition? I've only done this on SCSI (via an Adaptec 2940) - where it worked, I guess for IDE it might be different (maybe someone else will know?) > What is the maximum partition size? I need to make > large file systems for e-mail and web caching. I have > a couple of 9Gb disks ... can I have 9Gb partitions? Yes, easily... I've used partitions up to around 40Gb, but I wouldn't recomend making them too large with no good reason, as they take ages to fsck (i.e. check) if the system goes down/panics while busy... (And they can take quite a bit of memory/swap space to run fsck on as well!) > If I cannot have files systems beyond 2 Gb, is there a > way to concatinate them together. You could concatenate your _drives_ together if you want?!, then have an 18Gb partition that spanned both... (Not good from a fault tolerance point of view though). If your using 3.1 look at either CCD or Vinum for concatenating them (or even mirroring them for fault tolerance)... [CCD is more tested, but Vinum is 'better' - but not completed/tested as much yet... If it were me I'd see if I could get on with Vinum first, then go to CCD if you can't :-) (man vinum, man ccd]. Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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