From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 15 02:28:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA19825 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 02:28:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from rogerswave.ca (mail.rogerswave.ca [198.231.117.195]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA19818 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 02:28:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from wong.rogerswave.ca (wong.rogerswave.ca [204.92.17.32]) by rogerswave.ca (8.7.2/8.7.2) with SMTP id FAA03003; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 05:26:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 05:18:42 -0500 (EST) From: Wong To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" cc: Philippe Regnauld , joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers Subject: Re: Clobbered partititon table .. :-( In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------