On 2005-06-12 14:41, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i'm using different unices for 7 years and excluding few cases i never > made other partitioning scheme than 2 partitions: swap and / > > i have no problems like "there's out of space in partition x while > plenty of y". it's far easier to do backups too (single dump). [...] > fsck speed is same in checking one partition or many smaller. and it > doesn't matter at all as FreeBSD (and NetBSD) doesn't crash every few > hours like windows
While you have made a few good and valid points, this last one is not really true. FWIW, Checking a filesystem involves allocating enough memory to reconstruct the inode and data block allocation bitmaps, when something is wrong, along with other meta-information. This information is kept in data structures that are traversed many times. It may be possible to check 20 filesystems of 100 GB each a lot faster than a single 2000 GB filesystem, if the fsck process that is supposed to check the latter runs out of memory because of the filesystem size. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"