From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F9lXN-0001jp-9m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:59:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GFpr2L007253; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:51:53 GMT Received: from gateway1.delphi.com (gateway1.delphi.com [12.47.224.16]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GFUis8017108 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:30:45 GMT Received: from USMITRY-MX04.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.137.56]) by gateway1.delphi.com (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id CJA16676; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:30:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from USMITRY-MX02.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.137.43]) by USMITRY-MX04.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:30:38 -0500 Received: from DEWUP-MX02.Europe.DelphiAuto.net ([130.171.200.162]) by USMITRY-MX02.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:30:42 -0500 Received: from dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net ([10.233.7.145]) by DEWUP-MX02.Europe.DelphiAuto.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:30:19 +0100 Received: from s08nfs.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net (s08nfs [206.122.137.180]) by dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C202E972 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:30:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.233.7.145] (dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net [10.233.7.145]) by s08nfs.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C21725C8 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:30:19 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <43F49A8B.6090308@mid.message-center.info> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:30:19 +0100 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060104 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? References: <43F49160.4020701@mid.message-center.info> <13369.1140102624@www076.gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <13369.1140102624@www076.gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Feb 2006 15:30:19.0873 (UTC) FILETIME=[E5266D10:01C6330D] X-Archives-Salt: 3dc89094-1bd2-49d8-881c-8a0ef869519f X-Archives-Hash: 3cc1299f44f08b072afe9618ec48c6a0 jarry@gmx.net wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes >> life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people >> still do the old style partitioning. > > Correct me if I am wrong, but with lvm you do not have > control over physical placement of your partitions. Right? Right. > So if you use lvm even for swap, lvm might place it anywhere > on disk, on the beginning (first cylinders, highest speed, > i.e. ~50 MB/s) or at the end (in my case ~30 MB/s). Well, it might, yes. However, if you create it as the first Logical Volume, then I'd suppose that it would be at the beginning of the Volume Group. I don't know that though. But as swap is a "static" partition (meaning that it'll most likely close to never need to be resized), I don't put swap in LVM. No gain. If I need more swap, it's most of the time just a temporary thing. And then I don't care that much about performance. > In some cases it might matter to partition disk wisely, > for example when someone is doing tv/video grabbing, he > needs maximum transfer speed to avoid frame-dropping, so > it might be worth putting /home or /tmp somewhere near > beginning of disk (outside cylinders). Similar for swap, > plus optimising of head-movement, etc... Yes, for special cases, special solutions might be needed. I wasn't under the impression that the OP had such a special case, though :) Alexander Skwar -- BOFH Excuse #126: it has Intel Inside -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list