Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 05:18:42 -0500 (EST) From: Wong <wong@rogerswave.ca> To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> Cc: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Clobbered partititon table .. :-( Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960315051144.2383A-100000@wong.rogerswave.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960314093121.4455A-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
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On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > Is it a problem to have your swap as the first partition? I've always > put it there since that's the fastest part of the disk. If this is a I thought the middle of the disk is the fastest because when the disk is doing nothing it should rest in the middle. resting in the middle would result in less distance to trevel for seek to either end of the platter. Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "we come with nothing, and we leave with nothing" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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