on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:22:47PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Ian Thomas (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:42:29PM -0800): > > > > hdb1 (this is already my freebsd swap partition) > > > > hdb2 /boot (this will be a primary partition) > > > > hdb3 (extended partition containing logical > slices) > > > > hdb5 / > > > > hdb6 /var > > > > hdb7 /tmp > > > > hdb8 /home > > > > hdb9 /usr > > just a quickie, but given the geometry of a disk, you'd want the high > usage partitions up front, so i think you should move usr to hda6 and > shift the others...
Advice I've heard (no emperical evidence myself) is that higher utilization is best placed toward the physical midpoint of the disk radius. This tends to equalize head movement in and out. Unless heads park in either an inboard or outboard position? -- Karsten M. Self <[email protected]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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