Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:34:52 -0800 (PST) From: Russell Ingram <rfi@sandiegoca.ncr.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How big can a FreeBSD filesystem be? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990113130007.27893C-100000@ws098>
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In most older versions of UNIX the maximum size a useful file system can be is limited by "fsck"'s ability to check that file system. Many older versions of UNIX "fsck" doesn't work on file systems greater then 2 G-BYTEs. With disks getting bigger by leaps and bounds supported file system size becomes an issue. How Big a file system will FreeBSD support (including all the disk tools)? And How Big is a reasonable file system? I just talked to a with a system administrator who repartitioned his disk array on a SOLARIS system (where "fsck" handles much larger then 2 G-BYTE file systems) from 64 G-BYTE partitions to 32 G-BYTE and is now planning to reduce again to 16 G-BYTE because "fsck" takes too long. I'm using FreeBSD 2.6.6. The SCSI disk I'm purchasing are 9.1 G-BYTE. After /, /usr, /var, and swap I figure I'll have 7 G-BYTEs left and want to keep it as one file system. Two at most. I'm also assuming I might add a 18 or 24 G-BYTE disk latter. When do file systems get too big? Any information would be appreciated Thanks, Russell.Ingram@sandiegoca.ncr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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