From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 8 23:52:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DBDD106566B for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:52:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f09:679::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8A7B8FC15 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08C848C06; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:53:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on muon.cran.org.uk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=8.0 tests=AWL,RDNS_DYNAMIC, SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION autolearn=no version=3.2.5 Received: from tau.cran.uk.to (client-86-31-218-178.oxfd.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.31.218.178]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:53:07 +0000 (UTC) From: Bruce Cran To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:53:03 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (FreeBSD/9.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.3.5; amd64; ; ) References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB383B25CD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB383B25CD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002082353.04058.bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Peter Steele Subject: Re: Should root partition be first partition? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:52:43 -0000 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