Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:53:03 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Subject: Re: Should root partition be first partition? Message-ID: <201002082353.04058.bruce@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB383B25CD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB383B25CD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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On Monday 08 February 2010 14:09:48 Peter Steele wrote: > I've set up a system with gpart and have the swap partition first followed > by root, var, and so on. This works fine but I've seen documents that > always have root first, then swap. Is there any reason that root should be > the first partition or can it follow swap space? It may partly be historical: old PCs couldn't boot from past 504MB due to the 1023 cylinder limitation so /boot had to be first on the disk. -- Bruce Cran
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