Never heard of it either, I am using 2 partitions 60GB and 30GB, no problems
Mahmood Charles de Gaulle<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_de_gaulle.html> - "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Saad M Niamatullah < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:20 AM, maSnun <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have assigned about 239GB to my /home partition which is ext3 > filesystem. > > I have heard that ext3 has issues with partitions more than 25GB. I fear > > that my installation will corrupt again. > > > Where have you heard that ext3 has issues with partitions more than 25 > GB? Please be sure of the information first before believing it. As > far as I am aware, there is NO "issue" with ext3 and partitions larger > than 25GB. Maybe your hard drive is at fault. > > Can I do anything to stop the oncoming crash ? Do you suggest switching > to a > What oncoming crash? There will be no oncoming crash, Insha Allah. > > better FS? Perhaps like JFS or ext4? In that case, how do I convert my FS > > without losing any data? > > > ext3 is already a very stable filesystem. But ext4 is newer and > faster. But be sure to use a UPS, because it can lose data sometimes > when the power goes off. > > My System: > > > > Ram - 1 GB > > Processor - Celeron D (2.8 GHz) > > > > Hard Disk 1 - Samsung 250 GB > > Hard Disk 2 - Maxtor 40 GB > > > > Ubuntu 9.04 has been installed on Hard Disk 1 with following partitions: > > > > "/" - 1 GB > > "/boot" - 1 GB > > "/home" - 239 GB > > swap - rest of the disk space > > > > Hard Disk 2 has no partitions. > > > > -- > > Abu Ashraf Masnun > > Grad Student, BBA, > > Khulna University. > > http://masnun.com > > -- > > Ubuntu Bangladesh | http://ubuntu-bd.org > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd > > > > > > -- > Saad M Niamatullah > > -- > Ubuntu Bangladesh | http://ubuntu-bd.org > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd > -- Ubuntu Bangladesh | http://ubuntu-bd.org [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
