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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:18:30 -0500
From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
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Subject: Re: Should root partition be first partition?
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On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:09:48AM -0600, 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 should work, but there are so many things that might assume
to have / (root) as the first partition on a bootable drive that
maybe it is best to just stick with that convention.

////jerry


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