Swap Partition?

[Phillip Susi]

I assume that by outer tracks you mean the logical end of the drive.  
This is incorrect.  The drives have all kinds of weird internal geometry 
that is not explained to the OS.  The manufacturers usually organize the 
drive such that the lower logical sectors are on the faster part of the 
disk.  If you want faster swap, then you should put it at the beginning 
of the disk, but assuming that you have plenty of memory, the swap isn't 
going to be used all that much, so you may as well put it at the slower 
end of the disk and the root at the start. 

At the end of the day though, you really won't notice the difference. 

Vram wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 20:40 +0200, Simon Taplin wrote:
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>>Is it better to have the swap partition at the beginning or end of a 
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>>Simon
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>It is best to have the swap partition on the outer trackes..
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>The linear velocity is higher and the angular velocity is constant.
>Using BZR it is less latency..
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>HTH
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>Vram
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