-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2009-01-07 at 15:02 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: ...
Another reason, indirectly, is a want to segregate programs and data according to relative disk speed. Usually the fastest part is up front, while the slowest at the end.
I once measured speed, and found the fastest was at 1/3 of the space. I made something like perhaps 30 partitions of the same size, same format, and then I used hdparm -tT on all of them. After the test, I made my real partitioning decissions :-)
I never put /boot on anything but a primary, while I nearly always have a primary on each HD that can function as a /boot.
My factory boot is on /hda8. The trick is that I have another grub in MBR (the main one) which I use to load the second grub. Ok, now I would not install grub to MBR, but at the time, it was the default practice. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkllD3YACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VLTACfeeAQlieOiM/rzmEZneF05LIO faYAnjXgVyZJSLNooJcL5IZXwQmIaWO6 =H3w1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org