[582] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: 9GB drives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailingl)
Sat Sep 2 10:25:28 1995
From: linux@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailinglist)
To: drew@poohsticks.org (Drew Eckhardt)
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 09:53:55 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: jduersto@kendall.mdcc.edu, willett@coam.usm.edu,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199509011517.JAA12494@chopper.poohsticks.org> from "Drew Eckhardt" at Sep 1, 95 09:17:21 am
Reply-To: linux-vger@wab-tis.rabobank.nl
According to Drew Eckhardt:
> >If you're going to use the entire drive for linux, I don't see why you
> >can't just "mke2fs /dev/sdb" and use the whole thing without a partition
> >table. I posted a message about it before and nobody came up with any
> >reason why this couldn't/shouldn't be done.
>
> You couldn't boot from it, would have one Big Fat Honkin partition
> instead of multiple slices which are more desireable (to prevent
> fragmentation on the main filesystme for instance, log files from
> overflowing, etc), etc.
Why can't you boot from it?
And isn't ext2fs supposed to prevent the fragmentation itself?
(I have never done any tests on that, but the standard reply on "where
do I find an ext2fs defrag" in the news is "you don't need it", although
one is available nowadays)
Rob
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