[Malvern] Adding a hard drive.

[Chris Eilbeck]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:46:56PM +0000, Geoff Bagley wrote:
> 
> >I'm not sure it'll make any difference.  It used to be that the slowest
> >device on an ide bus made the faster one run at its speed but I don't
> >think it's like that any more and it doesn't matter so much which is
> >master and which is slave.
> > 
> >
> On that subject,  would there be any advantage in putting
> my <swap> partition  on the new drive as /hdc5 ?
> 
> Another ploy might be letting hdb5  be swap for hda1,
>                                  and    let  hda5  be swap for hdb1
> 
> Would that avoid any competition ?

Do you have any problems with the speed of your swapping?  Unless you
know you have a prob I wouldn't bother tinkering.  Chances are you're
probably swapping on all the available swap partitions.

Chris
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