On Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:22:07 -0800 (PST),
"Colin Wood" <cwood@ichips.intel.com> wrote:
> I've heard that it sometimes helps system responsiveness to have a swap
> partition on the outer edge/cylinders of a drive since these should have
> faster access times.  Does anyone have any experience with this?

No, I don't, but my gut feeling is performance gain wouldn't be
noticeable.

> Also, if I format a drive and create a swap partition first,
> will most formatting utilities actually put that partition first (i.e. on 
> the outer cylinders of the drive)?

"disklabel sdX" should give you the information, right? (look at
the offsets)

Hope this helps,

Ken