[Bug 821728] [NEW] Increasing hdd performance: Swap partition should be at the beginning of the hard disk drive

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I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 dev (it was installed from the Ubuntu 11.04
alternate cd). At the installation process I have choosen a guided
partition of my full hard disk drive. Ubuntu has created at first
/dev/sda1 with 182,31 GB as /dev/sda1 and at the end the swap partition
with 4 GB as /dev/sda2 -> /dev/sda5.

I'm wondering why the swap partition is created at the end of the hard
disk drive. On mechanical disks there are heavy negative performance
impacts at this place. Only the first ~20%-25% of a hard disk drive are
the fastest place with a constant speed (in my case ~40 GB). It would
make more sense to place the swap partition at the beginning of the hard
disk drive at default on a guided partition.

** Affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

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Increasing hdd performance: Swap partition should be at the beginning of the hard disk drive
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/821728
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