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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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