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Move swap to another partition, revisited again
Authored by: Shawn Parr on Jun 20, '05 04:37:48PM

Why the middle of the drive?

The first section of the drive is technically faster than the middle or end of the drive, and most linux installers will put the swap towards the beginning by default, unless of course you override the defaults.

If you are looking to increase performance you should have swap at the beginning of the drive to give it a speed boost.



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Move swap to another partition, revisited again
Authored by: forty-2 on Jun 26, '05 08:45:18PM

Because eventually you're going to use most of drive, which means the head could be anywhere on the platter. While the R/W speed is greatest at the begining of the drive, the seek time is faster somewhere in the middle.



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