17.02.2011 23:27, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > Hi, > > A Quinta 17 Fevereiro 2011 10:32:54 Olaf van der Spek você escreveu: >> Package: partman-partitioning >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Hi, >> >> Could swap be put at the begin instead of at the end of a disk? >> It's better for performance and it allows one to resize the / partition >> without touching the swap one.
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. In contrary to that, you really want your main filesystems to be at the beginning of the drive - the data you access most often. 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). FWIW. /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d5d8a90.20...@msgid.tls.msk.ru
