Default FS Layout Too Small?

[Matthew Seaman]

Lawrence Stewart wrote:
 
> When I last played around with having 1 large partition in the 6.1 days, 
> it didn't actually work consistently. From memory the issue is that if 
> the boot filesystem (which was on the large root partition) extended 
> past a particular combination of cyl/head/sector, the machine would 
> crash in the boot stage. With a 20GB disk it was fine, but a 40GB disk 
> would trigger the crash.
> 
> This may have been fixed since then, but it would be worth doing some 
> testing on a range of hardware before we could recommend it as an option.

A counter point: we have several hundred servers of various makes[*], sizes
and ages -- most OS versions since 4.11 right up to 7.1-p3, typically with
40+ GB HDDs for the system disk (depending on age -- the most recent machines
have 160GB) -- all laid out in the all-in-one fashion and we've never seen the
problem described.  I can only suppose Lawrence ran into a specific motherboard
or BIOS limitation.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

[*] Supermicro, HP, IBM

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