On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Debian Ghost wrote: > I was thinking about getting a 60 gig hard drive and was wondering > what linux constraints were on having a drive that big. Would I be
As we've been discussing lately large hard drives can cause a ruckus with older disk utilities. In some cases your BIOS can create a nuisance but since the BIOS isn't really needed for Linux this is only a nuisance for a few things (like where your kernel is located on the disk). > able to have one large 60 gig partition or would I have to break it up > into several smaller partitions? Ext2fs has a partition limit of 2 terabytes, which ought to be enough for at least another 2 or 3 years. <g>
