moving partititions

Jim Cheetham jim at egressive.com
Thu Apr 7 22:20:06 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:43 -0500, Drewcore wrote:
> i was thinking about moving my partitions around. my usr partition is
> at the end of my drive, so i want to move it closer (next to root
> partition) because i hope that it will make my programs load faster.
> is this a good idea?

It's not a bad idea, but for the amount of effort you'll expend, the
benefits will be too small to detect.

prelinking will probably help more than changing the physical location
on the disk.
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