Alan McKinnon schrieb:
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 21:14:25 Florian Philipp wrote:You should also consider putting them near the beginning of the disk. You can do this by booting a live-CD and use gparted to move your root-partition.These days you have absolutely no guarantee that a partition is in the location on the disk where the cylinder numbers imply they should be. Disk manufacturers are free to put the bits of a disk that add up to this mythical thing called a "cylinder" any place they like, as long as the mapping between them is maintained. There is also no way I know of to ask a disk where a specific sector actually resides.
No guarantee, but a pretty high chance: dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/null ... 957169664 bytes (957 MB) copied, 17.5531 s, 54.5 MB/s dd if=/dev/sda12 of=/dev/null ... 820854784 bytes (821 MB) copied, 21.4136 s, 38.3 MB/sI wouldn't care about this difference if I had a fast and big HDD or a RAID but on a 5400rpm notebook HDD it really makes a difference, especially when you are using tuxonice for suspend to disk.
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