Ray Olszewski wrote:
Now here is something I have been wanting to discuss:
Disk access time (uh, average head travel distance).
Ahem:
What does "everyone" suggest putting the swap partition at the end of the
drive? Would it be better to put it in the middle ? Or in the case of
only two partitions "/" & "/swap":
/dev/hd?1 /swap
/dev/hd?2 /
?
Regards, Chuck
p.s. Sorry, Ray, for quoting your message. It was just 'luck' :-|
<snip> First thing to consider
> is using fdisk to repartition your hard disk so you have some swap -- I'd
> say 16 megs, given how little disk space in total you have to work with. Run
> fdisk; delete partition 1; make a new,smaller hda1 at 99.95 megs, and a new
> hda2 set as type swap with 16 megs.
> <snip>
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