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Derek Atkins wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: DA> Really, the only advantage of having multiple, small DA> partitions is if you have multiple disks (spindles). The DA> e2fsck program can work in parallel across multiple disks. DA> But it can only split up after it finishes the root DA> paritition. So, if you have, say, two 18G drives, it would DA> be faster to have a 'small' root on one drive and then more DA> partitions on both. I strongly advise against allowing single filesystems to span disks. Very great inefficiency can result, especially if you do this with IDE. There might be unusual circumstances where it makes sense with SCSI, but even then I remain quite skeptical. The only case where I can see a basis for this is when there is a need to store files which are themselves larger than the disk, and there are a lot better solutions, such as RAID, in that case. DA> If you only have one drive, it really doesn't matter. IMHO. Generally, I agree. However, there are BIOS limitations and other exceptions. See my much more involved discussion in a prior message. -- Mike - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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