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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!uunet!think.com!ames!news.hawaii.edu!root From: julian@uhccvx.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Julian Cowley) Subject: Re: BEWARE: stupid placement of swap space... Message-ID: <1992Oct5.054327.15122@news.Hawaii.Edu> Sender: root@news.Hawaii.Edu (News Service) Nntp-Posting-Host: uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu Organization: University of Hawaii References: <1992Sep30.214507.24016@ulrik.uio.no> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 05:43:27 GMT Lines: 13 Tore Haraldsen: >I think this handling of the swap partition is quite normal for BSD type >systems. You NEVER put the swap partition first on the disk. The swap >partition is used in a way analog to a raw device... This may be somewhat off the original subject, but isn't the best place for a swap partition in the middle of the disk? If it's on the end, then the head has to move twice as far to reach the partition, on the average. Julian Cowley julian@uhccvx.uhcc.hawaii.edu