On 2011/04/25 21:49 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. composed:
On Sunday, 2011-04-24 at 17:17 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
I _always_ partition before installing anything. And I always assume Windows will eventually need _re_-installing, which blows away the myth that Windows needs to be installed first. http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/install-doz-after.html is a place percentage-wise to start WRT deciding how to partition.
Reinstall windows? What a pain, never again. Just copy over the correct image you did after installation, saves hours of work pulling drivers and software and rebooting. You can do that with dd from the linux side.
That's what _I_ do, but you think ordinary windoz "dual" booters ever gonna think of that? Strangers bring them to me already fsck'd up with no restore media to fix them with. I just set those machines off to one side, and poke at windoz when it needs a poke to continue to do what it ought to be smart enough to do on its own. Doesn't really how long it takes to me, and they leave here with no serious expectations how long it will be until I call to tell them come get it back.
Remember, most HDs are noticeably faster putting and getting data from the front of a HD than the end, not unusually a 50% difference, so the front is
The disks I have tested are faster at 1/3 of the front.
Sysbench 0.9.5d result file created Sun Apr 24 01:35:53 2011 Motherboard - Abit AI7; HT on Processor - Intel P4 3.0G 800 FSB External cache - 16Kb internal instruction cache, 1024Kb cache Storage Controller - Intel Corporation - 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) EIDE Controller Disk I/O disk 1-1: 238473 MB - ST3250310AS Avg. data access time : 15.100 milliseconds Cache/Bus xfer rate : 115.680 Megabytes/second Track 0 xfer rate fwd : 84.872 Megabytes/second Middle trk rate fwds. : 89.659 Megabytes/second Last track rate bwds. : 53.584 Megabytes/second Average Transfer rate : 76.038 Megabytes/second Disk use CPU load : 8.250 percent ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Total : 424.140 Disk I/O-marks Disk I/O disk 2-2:1430796 MB - ST31500341AS Avg. data access time : 11.500 milliseconds Cache/Bus xfer rate : 109.007 Megabytes/second Track 0 xfer rate fwd : 107.472 Megabytes/second Middle trk rate fwds. : 106.981 Megabytes/second Last track rate bwds. : 95.558 Megabytes/second Average Transfer rate : 103.337 Megabytes/second Disk use CPU load : 11.290 percent ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Total : 567.438 Disk I/O-marks 84.872 / 53.584 = 1.584 (aka 58% better at front) 107.472 / 95.558 = 1.125 (aka 12.5% better at front) -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org