When I was installing debian, I made two test partitions on my 12.9GB IBM "ultra-ATA" drive. One partition was 300MB from cylinder 6144 to cylinder 6744, the other was 300MB at the very end of the disk, around cylinder 25000. I used the bad block scan on my debian install cd to check each partition, and timed the whole procedure. Things took about twice as long for the partition at cylinder ~25000 as they did for the partition at cylinder 6144.
I don't know enough to draw conclusions from this, but I did put my swap partition as near as possible to the "beginning" of my drive. :) David LaRose [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Harran wrote: > Would I see a performance increase if I made sure my linux partition > was on the outside of my disk? Ed wrote: > Or better yet, some numbers from formal or informal experiments in > drive partition performance? Marsh Ray wrote: > Yes, I'd like to see this too. Wouldn't be hard to do, but I don't > have a spare drive at the moment.
