yes, just the asnwer i was looking for. thanx
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 05:59:52PM -0500, David van Balen wrote:
> > I just reinstalled lm-6.1 as my primary OS with the following partitions:
> >
> > hda1 15mb /boot dir
> > hda5 4.1gig vmware directory
> > hda6 32mb swap
> > hdb1 128mb swap
> > hdb5 21.9gig / dir
> >
> > My question is. Will making / so big slow down my access time on that
> > drive? I wanted to avoid trouble later with partitions running out of
> > space and the speed at which that partition will be accessed never
>
> Nope, partition size will not affect access speeds. It will affect fsck
> times, but as long as you don't reboot often or forcibly, you'll not notice
> it very much.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> --
> Steve Philp
> Network Administrator
> Advance Packaging Corporation
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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