disk!various!change and tmp mutual Here have been talks regarding the certain Linux relevant development teams regarding formal document options having short-term storage. miscellaneous!interleaved exchange pushes It is not striping around the multiple drives, rather drives try utilized for the a round robin trends manageable so you can bequeath the strain for the a harsh manner. From inside the Linux you will also have a top priority parameter you can to alter having tuning the body, particularly beneficial when your discs differs notably into the speed. Glance at Change Partition: to utilize or not to utilize
disk!miscellaneous!swap or no swap In many cases you do not need a swap partition, for instance if you have plenty of RAM, say, more than 64 MB, and you are the sole user of the machine. In this case you can experiment running without a swap partition and check the system logs to see if you ran out of virtual memory at any point. Removing swap partitions have two advantages: you save disk space (rather obvious really) you save seek time as swap partitions otherwise would lie in the middle of your disk space. In the end, having a swap partition is like having a heated toilet: you do not use it very often, but you sure appreciate it when you require it. Mount Point and /mnt
disk!miscellaneous!mount point issues In an earlier version of this document I proposed to put all permanently mounted partitions under /mnt. Continue reading