Hey, does anyone have any experiences/storys in regards to large drives and how best to partition them.
I've built up a few new servers and have installed 160GB drives in them. I've formatted them with ext3, and just have one large partition on it. When i formatted it, i didn't specify a block size and it gave me all default values. Here's the output: [root@griffin root]# mkfs -t ext2 -j /dev/hda1 mke2fs 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 20021248 inodes, 40019915 blocks 2000995 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 1222 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 16384 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872 Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (8192 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 34 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. So, it looks like block size of 4k which sounds fine to me, not any wasteage. and the system sees the full size of the partition fine. So my questions are, are there any limitations i will run into with inodes [2 million sounds fine i think], any other area where resources are being wasted or could be better utilized, or just anything i should be taking into consideration that i'm not? Arguments for and against one big partition as opposed to splitting it up? One thing i should probably also mention. I have a separate 80GB drive for the system files, which is partitioned into /, swap, /usr/local, /var and /tmp, so the 160GB drive in question is purely for data storage, so no need to worry about temp files or logs. One of the problems i've discovered so far, is the automatic disk check which took forever, but thats just due to the size of the disk, as opposed to the size of the partition i believe. any advice muchly appreciated. cheers, thorsten -- ......................... : highpointlowlife.com : : 8bitrecs.com : : tsktskrecords.com : :::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
