[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes >> life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people >> still do the old style partitioning. > > Correct me if I am wrong, but with lvm you do not have > control over physical placement of your partitions. Right?
Right. > So if you use lvm even for swap, lvm might place it anywhere > on disk, on the beginning (first cylinders, highest speed, > i.e. ~50 MB/s) or at the end (in my case ~30 MB/s). Well, it might, yes. However, if you create it as the first Logical Volume, then I'd suppose that it would be at the beginning of the Volume Group. I don't know that though. But as swap is a "static" partition (meaning that it'll most likely close to never need to be resized), I don't put swap in LVM. No gain. If I need more swap, it's most of the time just a temporary thing. And then I don't care that much about performance. > In some cases it might matter to partition disk wisely, > for example when someone is doing tv/video grabbing, he > needs maximum transfer speed to avoid frame-dropping, so > it might be worth putting /home or /tmp somewhere near > beginning of disk (outside cylinders). Similar for swap, > plus optimising of head-movement, etc... Yes, for special cases, special solutions might be needed. I wasn't under the impression that the OP had such a special case, though :) Alexander Skwar -- BOFH Excuse #126: it has Intel Inside -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
