On 10/27/2010 12:26 PM, Rich Shepard 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? > > Rich >
I tend to put the partitions which will likely change the least first and those I might change, resize, repartition last. I tend to set them up anticipating booting multiple O/S and/or reserving a partition for installing the "next" version. /dev/sda1 boot or diagnostic /dev/sda2 swap /dev/sda3 ntfs (if I have to have a Windows) /dev/sda4 /dev/sda5 / /dev/sda6 reserved for / next version /dev/sda7 /data I put /data last because it is then easier to resize it to grow the / partitions and/or carve out another partition should I need to. R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
