Re: Partitioning a Web Server

[Mark Constable <markc@renta.net>]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 05:11 pm, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:10, Mark Constable wrote:
> >  /dev/hda5  /      200Mb
> >  /dev/hda6  /usr     1Gb
> >  /dev/hda7  /var     4Gb
> >  /dev/hda8  /home (the rest)
> >  /dev/hda9  swap   200Mb
> >  /dev/hda10+ (sizes extracted from /home)
>
> Are those partition numbers in order of location on disk?
>
> Most hard drives have the low cylinder numbers on the outside of the disk
> (which has slightly lower average seek times and much better bulk transfer
> rates).  You generally don't want the swap on the high cylinder numbers!

It depends if and how big an auxilluary /dev/hda10 partition might be,
which could place hda9 optimally near the middle of the disk. I tend to
swap drives a lot because I use removable caddies so having a consistant
layout usually takes precedence over maximizing efficiency.

--markc