[Sheflug] Re: Partitioning

[James Wallbank <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

While we're on the subject of partitioning, I'd like to hear what 
people think about the position of the swap partition.

SuSE puts swap straight after /boot, at the beginning of the disk 
(which I guess, physically, would be the inside edge). After a few 
crashes with cranky old distros and h/w, we solved a lot of problems 
by putting swap at the end of the disk (the outside edge?). That way, 
if swap bugs rear their ugly heads, they don't overrun into another 
partition.

Arguments I've heard about where to put swap go like this:

Beginning of the disk gives faster disk access.
End of the disk gives better data integrity if swap bugs rampage.

But the other day I heard a new one:

End of the disk is faster on recently manufactured disks.

If that last argument is good, then I guess that about wraps it up 
for swap on the beginning of the disk - end it is. But is it true? Or 
are there other factors to take into account?

Another thing: recently someone told me that more than 128mB of swap 
is never used. Is this always true, or only true for earlier kernel 
versions, or just not true at all?

Cheers,

James
=====

>Keith
>
>Hope you are well :)
>
>>  Please can I have some guidance on the size and number of partions
>>  I should create? The SuSE manual doesn't cover partitioning such
>>  large hard drives.
>
>These are small hard drives.   Most of the ones I've seen are much
>bigger.  I've just finished my new home workstation.  Using it to
>write to you.  I've got a 256Mb swap partition...  27Gb HD..... most
>of it is the home partition...  2.5Gb of /usr ...  just for luck.   
>Seems to be working fine with a 1.2 Ghz AMD cpu and an ECS m/b.
>
>>  There is only me who uses the computer, so there will only be one
>>  user. I can't install this present old drive in the computer as
>>  part of the partitioning, as I have two drives on caddies. One is
>>  for Linux, and the other is for "another OS" which I still have to
>>  use very occasionally.
>
>Shouldn't be a problem with that either.
>
>Thanks
>
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