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Re: 1,4 TB to partition, mostly for /home/backup, what would you recommand

From: Otto Moerbeek (ottodrijf.net)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2006 - 03:52:06 CST


On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Alexander Hall wrote:

> Didier Wiroth wrote:
>
> > I thought about using 4x350GB (or X x XXX GB, any recommandations are
> > appreciated) partitions (to reduce the fsck times when fsck is needed),
> > and concatenate them via ccd to /home/backup?!
>
> Well, fsck checks the _file_system_, not the partitions, so that won't help
> much, right?

What helps in reducing fsck times is using a larger block and fragment
size.

        -Otto