On Monday 08 February 2010 14:09:48 Peter Steele wrote: > I've set up a system with gpart and have the swap partition first followed > by root, var, and so on. This works fine but I've seen documents that > always have root first, then swap. Is there any reason that root should be > the first partition or can it follow swap space?
It may partly be historical: old PCs couldn't boot from past 504MB due to the 1023 cylinder limitation so /boot had to be first on the disk. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
