On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:43:55AM +0200, Lucas Moulin wrote: > Hi all, > > I downloaded a daily build (from 11/07/2004) of the Sarge installer to > test it, and I have to say it works quite well on my iBook G3 900. But I > have some questions about partman, which has replaced mac-fdisk. > > Should the swap partition be in the beginning of the hard drive, or at > the end, which is now the case (in automatic partitioning mode)? I > always put it in the beginning on all my systems before, hence my question.
I doubt it changes much, maybe a wee bit of performance improvement, depending on disk technology, but i doubt you will notice. > Secondly, as I've got a laptop, do ReiserFS or XFS have any advantages > over ext3 ? Should I stay with ext3, or try another filesystem type ? I hear XFS is better in the fact that it asks for less disk accesses when idle, which is better for laptops. ext3 is fine though. Reiserfs i would not recomend on powerpc, but maybe past woes are solved now. Friendly, Sven Luther
