size limit for root partion

[Marti, Rob]

To back up Ramakrishnan...

[blah at foo ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1              448G  171G  254G  41% /
/dev/sda1              99M   23M   72M  24% /boot
tmpfs                 3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev/shm



Rob Marti
Systems Administrator
Sam Houston State University
936-294-3804 // rob at shsu.edu
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From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ramakrishnan [ramakrishnan42 at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:30
To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
Subject: RE: size limit for root partion

There is no size limit. I remember giving the whole of my 250 GB Hard disk to root file system excluding the swap space


-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:27 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: size limit for root partion

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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