>My recent experiment with running a large "kitchen sink" partition has
>only had limited success.  
>
>After years of making only sizeof(backup_media) partitions I got my
>first Really Big (tm) disk.  There just aren't enough partitions to
>allow a 75gig disk to be cut up very finely.
>
>The first time one's machine hangs, one realizes why a ~70 gig
>partition is a really bad idea.  You get to wait 15 minutes while fsk
>checks your disk.

i'm curious...is the fsck time of two 35 gig partitions much smaller
than that of one 70 gig partition?

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