* Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-24 08:10:41 -0500]:
> It appears after reading the fdisk manual, that it is
> best to put swap on whats left of the disk after calculating
> one's other partition needs. The boot image should end up in the
> lowest sector numbers. Do I understand this right?
Yep.
>
> I am about to reformat a 20-gig hard disk on a
> 5-year-old Dell laptop that used to run Windows XP. You might
> say, I am giving it a whole new outlook.
>
Got that right.
> The present fdisk report for /dev/hda shows a 32-MB
> partition 1 and a 19-gig partition 2. I think I will probably
> make it 19-gigs for partition 1 and 512 MB for partition2 since
> the system has 256 K of RAM. Partition 1 will be Linux and
> partition2 will be swap.
Hmm. Consider this:
In older machines where hard drive physical speed can be a noticable
factor in machine performance, it makes sense to to place your
partitions that see the most activity in terms of read/write accesses
physically close to each other with swap in between. The head doesn't
have to move as far to accomplish the same task. Hanging the swap out
at the end can be a detriment.
Perhaps a scheme such as this:
50 Mg /boot at the beginning
300 Mg /
5 gig /usr
3 gig /var
384 - 512 Mg swap
480 Mg /tmp
and the balance as /home
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Regards,
Klein.
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
-- Larry Gelbart
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