On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote: > 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.
That's true. > In contrary to that, you really want your main filesystems > to be at the beginning of the drive - the data you access > most often. A 256 mb swap partition before a 1 tb root partition isn't really going to make a difference. > 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). Not true, ext supports online resize. Olaf -- Olaf -- 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/aanlktimnytttbgb-hhuotht1ymv1ay-xs+kgsbdjv...@mail.gmail.com
