size limit for root partion

[Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Tech W. <techwww at yahoo.com.cn> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> does linux (my kernel 2.6.24) has size limit for root(/) partion?

I don't think so but having a 50GB for / is more than enough.

> I have a 160G sata disk, want to do partions as:
>
> /  ext3  50G
> swap  2G
> /data  reiserfs  (the left)
>
>
> Is this suitable?
> Thanks.
>

I recommend you to follow this guidelines,
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/alloc-disk.html
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html