From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 13 13:36:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05746 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:36:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from intelpo.sandiegoca.ncr.com (tan7.NCR.COM [192.127.94.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05741 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:36:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rfi@sandiegoca.ncr.com) Received: from ws098.sandiegoca.ncr.com (ws098 [153.64.73.9]) by intelpo.sandiegoca.ncr.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA02890 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:40:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rfi@localhost) by ws098.sandiegoca.ncr.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id NAA28044; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:34:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:34:52 -0800 (PST) From: Russell Ingram To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How big can a FreeBSD filesystem be? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In most older versions of UNIX the maximum size a useful file system can be is limited by "fsck"'s ability to check that file system. Many older versions of UNIX "fsck" doesn't work on file systems greater then 2 G-BYTEs. With disks getting bigger by leaps and bounds supported file system size becomes an issue. How Big a file system will FreeBSD support (including all the disk tools)? And How Big is a reasonable file system? I just talked to a with a system administrator who repartitioned his disk array on a SOLARIS system (where "fsck" handles much larger then 2 G-BYTE file systems) from 64 G-BYTE partitions to 32 G-BYTE and is now planning to reduce again to 16 G-BYTE because "fsck" takes too long. I'm using FreeBSD 2.6.6. The SCSI disk I'm purchasing are 9.1 G-BYTE. After /, /usr, /var, and swap I figure I'll have 7 G-BYTEs left and want to keep it as one file system. Two at most. I'm also assuming I might add a 18 or 24 G-BYTE disk latter. When do file systems get too big? Any information would be appreciated Thanks, Russell.Ingram@sandiegoca.ncr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message