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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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