Partitioning Linux & SCSI drives

[zscoundrel]

I am a firm believer in separate swap drives.  It is amazing how much a 
little head positioning delay will slow things down when the swap file 
occupies the same drive as the OS and user files.

Gary Hildebrand wrote:

> 
> I use SCSI drives, and rather than using a single drive, I would like to
> have a separate /swap drive, and separate /usr/Joeblow directories on
> smaller separate drives, the goal being to better use the bandwidth of
> the SCSI card in performing throughput.
> 
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