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



Hi,

A Quinta 17 Fevereiro 2011 10:32:54 Olaf van der Spek você escreveu:
> 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.

/boot is very small and usually it's a good idea to have it in the begining of 
the disk so bootloaders don't have problems with dealing with it. 
At least this was a requirement with ancient distributions/disks/bios :)
I'm not sure if the same happens today on any arch or port...

If that's the case then /boot, swap, everything else would be safer.

This bug report actually belongs to partman-auto in which there are the 
partition recipies.

> 
> 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

-- 
Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards,

Miguel Figueiredo
http://www.DebianPT.org



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