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Re: Fixing my partiotion table
On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Gavrie Philipson wrote:
> These were the first ten megs of the first partition. Luckily, the first
> partition was SWAP SPACE...nothing lost. Moral: Make swap space the first
> partition ;-)
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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