[email protected] writes:
> I also cannot evaluate the real impact the position of the /-partition
> on the harddisk has on system performance. I read about it years ago
> and since than I always put the partitions always in the sequence of
> "boot","swap","root","home" onto the harddisks. May be its only a
> tradition nowadays... ;)
I used to do this, too. Until I started using LVM, which made things much
easier for me. Now I can create as much partitions as I want, and resize
them while the system is running.
> Do you know of any other kind of data beside databses, which may be
> machinedependant or cause trouble while migrating to 64bit?
No, I think in a typical setup that's all to care about. But there might
still be other software where this is not the case, so I would at least
maek a backup of /var just in case.
Wonko
