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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by Stefan Heimers on Tuesday 06/Nov/2001, @16:26

The difference could be in the way distros partition and use the harddisk. Harddisks rotate at a constant speed, but have more data on the outer sectors than on the inner sectors.

That means, your first partition will have a higher transfer rate than the last one.

Spliting your harddrive in several partitions can make your linux system slow if you put them in the wrong order. Beginners should only use two partitions: hda1 for swap and hda2 for /.

...and you should always have swap before your system partition to make it fast and reduce head movements.

... and Linux sometimes seems slower than Windows because Windows is always in /dev/hda1 ;-(

Stefan

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