What partition type for large partitions?

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sat Nov 8 17:44:03 UTC 2003


> I'm installing Fedora Core 1 to my new hard drive (120G) :), and I want
> to have one larger partition approx 85G as logical drive.
> 
> What type (ext2, ext3, reiser) would be best solution, so that I don't
> waste to much space on slack?

Ext2 will take forever to fsck, reiser and ext3 should be just fine. Once
you get above 1-2Tb per fs (which needs 2.6 anyway) it gets a bit more
complex because ext3 doesn't scale forever.





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