On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:50:54PM -0700, Allasso Travesser wrote: > On Monday 14 February 2005 11:54 am, you wrote: > > BTW your partitioning scheme could do with a little modification - > > it's customary to make the swap partition the first partition on the > > disk, not the last, as access to the outer part of a disk is faster. > > My understanding has been that the first partition has to be the boot > partition. Am I understanding you correctly, that you are saying that > hdx1 would be the swap partition? Yes, I've got several machines where [hs]dx1 is swap. Most of them don't have a separate /boot, but / is on [hs]dx2. I also have a machine with /boot on hda3. The "boot partition has to be first" thing is pretty well irrelevant these days. It used to be the case that a lot of BIOSes wouldn't recognise any of a hard disk beyond cylinder 1024, so you made /boot the first partition to keep it all below cylinder 1024. Any BIOS dating from later than the days when half a gig was a big, big drive won't have this problem. The other place it crops up is with systems that dual-boot Linux and Windoze. While it is possible to make Windoze run off other than the first partition if you hit it with a big enough hammer, it tends to be flaky and strange things happen. So with a dual-boot system you make the Windoze boot partition the first one. Having said that, /boot only needs to be say 50 MB, so if you do want to put it first it's so small it won't make a noticeable difference to swap speed. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=0x21C61F7F
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