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

[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> There should be absolutely no difference for performance.
> If by "performance" here you mean you want faster swap,
> I'd say you want _no_ swapping instead, and if you're
> heavily swapping, no swap relocation will ever help.

That's true.

> In contrary to that, you really want your main filesystems
> to be at the beginning of the drive - the data you access
> most often.

A 256 mb swap partition before a 1 tb root partition isn't really
going to make a difference.

> For resizing, -- there's no big deal to temporary remove
> or move swap in case you're resizing root filesystem.
> Root filesystem can be resized only when booting from
> a rescue/install media (so swap isn't used), and you
> can always remove swap space from a running system
> if there's enough RAM (and there should be enough of
> it, see above).

Not true, ext supports online resize.

Olaf



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Olaf