Subject: Hard drive partitioning question
To: port-mac68k Mailing List <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/09/1997 18:22:07
I've heard that it sometimes helps system responsiveness to have a swap
partition on the outer edge/cylinders of a drive since these should have
faster access times. Does anyone have any experience with this? Should I
even bother? Also, if I format a drive and create a swap partition first,
will most formatting utilities actually put that partition first (i.e. on
the outer cylinders of the drive)?
Thanks for any advice anyone can offer.
Later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6 Intel Corporation
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