Re: Disk Management

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Mike Shoemaker wrote:
> I am installing RH 8.0 on a machine that has an 80gig disk(7200 RPM, Primary
> controller 1) and 13gig disk(5400 RPM, Primary controller 2).  Would it be a
> performance enhancement to put certain shares on the 2nd disk, i.e. swap
> files.  Or would this hurt performance since the disk is slower.  Any ideas
> would be appreciated.

Good practice suggests putting the swap on the fastest drive you have.
It is also good practice to keep the swap off the drive that's the
busiest in terms of user access and such.  In most cases, this means
keeping swap off the drive with the /usr filesystem and the filesystem
with the user home directories (if you have lots of transient traffic).

Beyond that, you can do what you wish.
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