On Monday, July 18, 2005 @ 4:28 PM, Nick Jones wrote:
That was really the point I was trying to get across; i. e.,
does make a difference where you put swap. Linux defaults swap to
that it the
first partition and there is actually a reason for putting it there.
Greg Wallace
On this particlar machine, it wanted the boot partition as the first partition on the disk because the BIOS was four years old and it needed it there for booting purposes (or at least that's the way I interpret the messages that it spit out at me, I should have written them down, whoops). Also, for some reason, it wanted 900+MB of swap for a machine with 128mb of RAM. Who am I to argue? I went ahead with the reccomended setup and all went just fine. This box is only a test machine anyway for some web development work. Chances are it'll be reformatted and reinstalled many times over it's remaining lifetime.
Thanks -Nick
If your machine does indeed requires the first boot partition to be the first one on the disk, then I guess you have no choice. In any event, the setup you said you used "-Delete partition /dev/hda1 509.9 MB (Linux Swap) -Create boot partition 64.4 MB (/dev/hda1 with ext2) -Create swap partition 901.1 MB on /dev/hda2 -Create root partition 73.6 GB (/dev/hda3 with reiser)" should be fine. You only have swap offset 64.4 MB from the beginning, and that's a pretty insignificant offset from the beginning of the disk. You just want to, all other things being equal, try to keep swap toward the top of the disk. By the way, why did you use ext2 for boot and reiser for root? Just curious. Can you not have two reiser partitions on one system? Greg Wallace