Marvin Kosmal <[email protected]> writes:
> On 10/27/10, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Does it matter what partition is formatted as swap on a drive? On my new
>> hard drive I've made 3 partitions, and think I should redo it because I
>> made /dev/sda1 the swap, /dev/sda2 will be /, and /dev/sda3 will be
>> /tmp. I'm thinking I should repartition so the sequence is /, swap, /tmp.
>>
>> Thoughts?
I would suggest you use LVM instead, but I have no idea how hard or easy
Slackware make it to do that. (The flexibility benefits, especially if you
leave some of the VG unallocated, pay off quickly in future.)
[...]
> I copied this from Wikipedia
>
> * "Short Stroking", which aims to minimize performance-eating head
> repositioning delays by reducing the number of tracks used per hard
> drive.[1]
This only works if you want to throw away the rest of the disk, or you have
data stored there that is essentially never accessed. Otherwise you lose any
benefit because reads and writes to the other partitions will eat those gains.
Regards,
Daniel
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