SCSI Drives

Robert F. Stockdale IV javabob at adelphia.net
Fri Mar 12 16:37:01 EST 2004


As an additional speed boost put the swap as close to the center of your 
fastest drive. The less the heads need to move to get to the swap 
partition the faster the access time will be.
just my .02.
Bob

Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>--- TheCactusKid Cactus <thecactuskid45 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>Hi y'all
>>Well after reading through a little information, I think I got a plan
>>here. Now tell me if I'm wrong or not. Here it goes.
>> 
>>sda 500mb will go /swap (This is a small drive)
>> 
>>sdb0 50mb /boot 
>>sdb1 200mb /root 
>>sdb2 3750mb /usr 
>> 
>>sdc0 2000mb /tmp 
>>sdc1 2000mb /usrlocal
>> 
>>sdd0 4000mb /home
>> 
>>sde0 2000mb /var
>>sde1 2000mb /opt
>> 
>>Am I on the right track?
>>    
>>
>
>Pretty close:
>sdc1 should be /usr/local, not /usrlocal
>sdb1 200mb /root should be instead: sdb1 200mb /
>/root is "root's" home directory
>/ is considered to the "root" of the filesystem (highest point)  hence
>many people confuse /root with /
>
>Usually 2GB for /tmp is a little much,  but extra never hurts. (I
>personally use about 400MB for tmp on my system.)
>
>If you have lots of space left over I also tend to create  a "scratch"
>parition which is useful for benchmarking, storing ISO's, using as a
>staging area for making CD/DVD's or for a temp storage place if I want
>to re-arrange my filesystems.
>
>I'd also put swap on the FASTEST drive you have,  as if your system
>gets low on ram and starts swapping to a slow disk, performance suffers
>even more so.
>
>
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>Dave J. Andruczyk
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