Am 2008-01-18 14:18:50, schrieb tofu.oni@gmail.com:
> I like to put mine on a disk.
>
> Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into
> where on the disk I place the swap partition? At the beginning of the
> disk? At the end? I thought it might be best to have it at the
> beginning, immediately followed by root, and with other partitions
> after that. My thinking was that most reads and writes would occur in
> root - and probably near the start of the root partition. So having
> the swap partition close by would reduce seek time by a couple of pico
> seconds - which should translate to thousands of nanocents per year.
>
> What do you guys think?
It depends, but on my servers I put in on a separated
18 GByte or 36 GByte SCSI-Drive (15000 RPM)...
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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