Large file systems

[ron]

In article <7875 at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> olsen at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Dave Olsen) writes:

>I am a system manager at Materials Science Center, Cornell University,
>responsible for a Convex C210 system with 5 GB of disk.  Out of this, we
>would like to make about 3 GB of disk available for our users, on two
>partitions.

>What I would like to know is if anyone has found problems with large
>partition sizes (up to 2 or 3 GB).  Any problems with utilities like dump,
>system administration difficulties with large partition sizes, and so on.

I am a system manager at San Diego State University, responsible for
an Elxsi 6400 BSD4.3 system with 3 GB of disk.  Our /usr1 partition
is 1.2 GB.  I have not had any problems with dump, fsck, quotas so far.
I hope this helps some.  Feel free to email any questions.

Ron Nash
University Computing Services
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