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Re: Fixing my partiotion table
A general rule for creating Swap partitions for Linux and other OS:
Create one for each physical disk drive that is not too overloaded.
The kernel can strip the swap across the drives and thus read/write
much faster.
Excerpt of message (sent 4 June 1996) by Ira Abramov:
> On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Gavrie Philipson wrote:
>
> I was always told the last cylinders are a little faster, and a third
> theory says it should be in the middle so the head travels the least :-)
>
> best of the best: have the swap partition on a separate disk, or even on
> a separate controller...
>
>
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Gal.
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