Install of Ubuntu

[James Wilkinson]

amigian wrote:
> Was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on if it is better (or doesn't 
> matter) that Ubuntu is installed on the same HD as windoze or on a second 
> HD. Thanks.

Doesn't really matter.

If your hard drives are on separate cables (or if they're SCSI), then
you might want to split the hard drive accesses across the two drives.
For example, you might want to put /, /usr and swap on one drive, and
/var and /home on the other. (This depends on how you'd use the various
partitions).

The idea is that if one disk is receiving e-mail, then the computer can
still continue loading Evolution from the other disk without
interruptions.

Of course, if either disk goes down you're going to have problems...

If you're really keen on performance, you might want to think about the
sort of data you're storing and where would be most efficient to put it.
Generally, if you want fast long reads of sequential data, the start of
the disk is fastest.  On the other hand, if you want fast access to
small files or small parts of files, the middle of the disk is fastest.

Or you could just say that everything's fast enough and put Ubuntu where
you please...

James.
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