Bug#613796: partman-partitioning: Put swap at begin of disk instead of at end

[Olaf van der Spek <OlafvdSpek@GMail.Com>]

Package: partman-partitioning
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Could swap be put at the begin instead of at the end of a disk?
It's better for performance and it allows one to resize the / partition without touching the swap one.

Greetings,

Olaf

Disk /dev/sda: 17.2 GB, 17179869184 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2088 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00050fa9

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         993     7976241   83  Linux
/dev/sda2             994        1044      409657+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5             994        1044      409626   82  Linux swap / Solaris

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash