size limit for root partion

[Kumaresh P]

Hi,

ext3 can support upto a max of 2^^31-1 blocks which translates to ~16TB.

I would recommend a separate partition of 100MB for /boot as a best practice.

Regards,
Kumaresh

--- On Sat, 23/5/09, Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin <mij at irwan.name> wrote:

From: Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin <mij at irwan.name>
Subject: Re: size limit for root partion
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Date: Saturday, 23 May, 2009, 10:27 PM

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

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