Hey BillK & all, Thanks for your responses. > Only logical thing I have seen is that its recommended to be in > the (physical) middle of the disk to hopefully minimise seek > times.
It appears that gentoo's kernel is set this way, so I'll go with it. > Order in the /dev hierarchy is irrelevant, its a physical > thing. Sure, I can see that. I'm fairly familiar with Linux fdisk; it ~does~ place partitions, named appropriately (hda1 at the beginning, hda2 in the middle, hda3 at the end -- if one does it in order), where one wants them, though. > You will gain more by using a separate swap disk, striped > multiple swap or extra ram Oh, I'm sure, but I've been very pleased with my old Dell P-III since I'd upped the ram to 512 & added hard disks. I've had faster pentiums & I have an Athalon 1.1GHz under my desk for my occasional Windows need, but I've preferred my P-III over the others since the beginning. Anyway, before I start this process, anyone have any comments on the other question in that post: Any hassles involved in moving var from hda to hdd ~after~ installing gentoo? After all, I could set a link on hda, right? Meph -- Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. -Marcus Aurelius -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
