I've seen a reference to two regarding the location of a partition on the HDD being faster than other parts of the HDD. I've been trying to get a definitive answer on this and it's still not clear to me.
1. What part of the HDD is faster, the inside (closest to the center of the platter) or the outside? It makes some sense to me that the outside would be faster due the fact that it's moving faster, but this may not be a determining factor. 2. When using cfdisk to partition, does it start the first partition by default at the beginning, or on the inside, of the HDD? IIRC, it refers to this as "the beginning of the free space". 3. I would want to put my swap and / partitions in the fastest part of the HDD, leaving /home and /usr/local for the rest of the drive. Does this make sense? [That's how I like to partition, those four mount points.] My intention here is to learn about the HDD and partitioning for speed in general. My purpose is general usage, nothing specific. thanks, jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]