I would have thought that for cached drives this becomes a moot point as
such a high percentage of hits come from cache.

Matt


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 10:35 AM
> To: debian user list
> Subject: Partitioning for Speed
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> 
> 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
> 
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> Diggin' Debian                Admin and User
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