On Sunday 23 January 2005 03:29 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote :
I always prefer to put /swap as the first partition (hd?1) on
a drive. R/W's slow as much as 40% the further down a partition
is on a drive, regardless of the drive's rpms, size, number of
disks, age, etc.
This
On Monday 24 January 2005 14:44, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Sunday 23 January 2005 03:29 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote :
I always prefer to put /swap as the first partition (hd?1) on
a drive. R/W's slow as much as 40% the further down a partition
is on a drive, regardless of
Tom Brinkman wrote :
I always prefer to put /swap as the first partition (hd?1) on
a drive. R/W's slow as much as 40% the further down a partition
is on a drive, regardless of the drive's rpms, size, number of
disks, age, etc.
This puzzles me : I've always believed that a harddisk had its
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote :
I always prefer to put /swap as the first partition (hd?1) on
a drive. R/W's slow as much as 40% the further down a partition
is on a drive, regardless of the drive's rpms, size, number of
disks, age, etc.
This puzzles me : I've always believed that a
