what partition size?

[inetd]

I have read many linux book saying that the larger partition size the easier file system crash. However, I want to setup a linux file server with 1 40G and 2 80G hard drives. The problem is that I need to make 2 or 3 public shares to all of our users and the shared size should be 10G or even larger than 20G.

Is it dangerous in partitioning such large size?

Can anyone give me any recommandation?

Thanks.

 

[pupu]

I've never heard such thing as this. It was probably meant this way - if your disk becomes defective, you can lose more data. But the probability is the same.

 

[mrregan]

HI,
I agree with pupu. Make the partitions as big as you want.

 

[timsr]

We consistantly use 18 to 20 gig partions with no "crashes". Don't know where that info came from but our experience with large partitions has been nothing but positive.

 

[MrTom]

Do use a modern journalling filesystem tho (ie. not ext2). If the machine goes down hard you'll be waiting a long time for fsck on an 80GB partition.