On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:09:37PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > 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.
Assuming 'resize' is defined as 'making bigger', and that you prepared it ahead of time for such future expansions. At least that's what I recall it being. -- Len Sorensen -- 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/20110217212951.gb...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
