Check out the Multi-Disk-HOWTO on our favorite how-to mirror. A section of this document discusses this. Jay On 24 May 01, at 13:30, Peter Clark wrote: > (maybe). The next question, with a dual-boot computer where Linux is > used 99.9% of the time, where is the best place to put Windows? At the > beginning or end of a hard drive? (As though you were looking at, say, > a disk partitioning line graph, with left being the beginning and right > the end.) > The reasoning I follow is this. If we take the example of a record > (as in LP, vinyl), a point in the outside moves faster relative to a > point closer to the center. If hard drives were vinyl LPs, I would want > to put the most speed-essential records (kernal, libraries, etc.) > closer to the outside edge, yes? But do hard drives work this way? Or > does the rotation slow as the drive head moves farther from the center? > If this hard drive physics is worth exploring, what on a hard drive > corresponds to the outer edge of a record? Is it the first couple of > sectors (assuming a single-partition drive) or the last? IOW, the left > or right side of a partition bar graph? Or is the bar graph a > convinient lie? Next, would it be advantagous to move certain files > into those sectors, and, if so, which ones? > I suppose in these days of super-fast hard drives it really doesn't > matter, but I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts. > :Peter > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >