Only logical thing I have seen is that its recommended to be in the (physical) middle of the disk to hopefully minimise seek times.
Order in the /dev hierarchy is irrelevant, its a physical thing. You will gain more by using a separate swap disk, striped multiple swap or extra ram BillK On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 07:42, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:16:09 -0700 (PDT) > Meph Istopheles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > I'm installing tomorrow & havn't seen it in either the install > > docs or on any Web page, but is gentoo optimised with /swap in a > > particular position? RH wants it at the end of a disk, I > > remember mdk wants it as the second partition, etc. I'll > > probably do /boot, then /, then /swap on the drive I'm installing > > on...unless someone tells me otherwise. > > Its basically personal preference. I like to have it as second partition > (Beginning of drive) but thats just me.. Theres no perfect recepie for > it that I know of (since I don't know how to align it on platters to > make it "optimized) > > > //Spider -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
