On 7/31/05, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 12:49:11AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > I'm certainly not the guy with good luck in general... > > I plan on using space from my /home partion, which is on /dev/hda2. So > > I will not be tampering with the root file system. In your opinion, > > does this sound safe? > > > > Also, since this is hda2 and not hda1, the swap partion will wind up > > in the middle or outside edge of the disk, no? That is the 'bad' place > > to put it according to other posters in this thread. Or am I looking > > at it backwards? > Well here is the deal. As another poster said , seek time is the major > part of the time of addressing a disk. If you believe that on average > your heads will be closer to the center of the disk , moving to a > place on a swap partition will be faster. > > If it is true that swap files are as fast as swap partitions to access > I would strongly urge you to go for a swap file. It is less risky and > easier to do. > > The discussion of whether access to the outside of the disk or the > inside is faster is specious. How quickly you can get to a part of the > disk to access data depends largely where the heads were on the last > access. > > > > > Thank you for sharing your insight, and for reviewing that article for > > me. As usual, this 'little project' turned into a big learning > > experience for me. I see that as a good thing! > > > > Dotan > > http://song-lirics.com/sl/artist/325/marcy-playground-lirics.php > > Marcy Playground music and lirics > > -- > > ======================================================================= > "You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?" > -- Friedrich Nietzsche, addressing anti-semitic Christians > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > OK, I think that I'm convinced to go with the swap file, and not the partition... My / partion has only about 3 gigs of it's 7 available, but the /home partion has about 8 of its 9 gigs available. Could I put the swap file on the /home partition? I don't see how I could tell it where to be by what I've read today regarding creating swap files. How is this done? I really appreciate everybody who is helping me. You guys are the greatest! Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/329/matchbox_twenty.php matchbox twenty Song Lyrics
