RE: Partitioning for Speed
I would have thought that for cached drives this becomes a moot point as
such a high percentage of hits come from cache.
Matt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff [mailto:jcoppock1@attbi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 10:35 AM
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> Subject: Partitioning for Speed
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> I've seen a reference to two regarding the location of a
> partition on the HDD being faster than other parts of the
> HDD. I've been trying to get a definitive answer on this and
> it's still not clear to me.
>
> 1. What part of the HDD is faster, the inside (closest to the center
> of the platter) or the outside?
>
> It makes some sense to me that the outside would be faster due the
> fact that it's moving faster, but this may not be a determining
> factor.
>
> 2. When using cfdisk to partition, does it start the first partition
> by default at the beginning, or on the inside, of the HDD?
>
> IIRC, it refers to this as "the beginning of the free space".
>
> 3. I would want to put my swap and / partitions in the fastest part
> of the HDD, leaving /home and /usr/local for the rest of the
> drive. Does this make sense? [That's how I like to partition,
> those four mount points.]
>
> My intention here is to learn about the HDD and partitioning
> for speed in general. My purpose is general usage, nothing specific.
>
> thanks,
> jc
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