Hi

having two hard disk......
what kind of files is better to place on the second hard disk ?
i immagine first the swap partition on the first part of the second disk...
then are there some often accessed files that is better to place on another drive ?

thanks in advance
Maurizio

"having two hard disk......
what kind of files is better to place on the second hard disk ?"

Linux runs faster if it can access both hard drives simultaneously. So you want to try to balance the load across both drives. That means that you want to have the same amount of hard drive accesses on each hard drive.

"i immagine first the swap partition on the first part of the second disk..."

If you have a reasonable amount of memory then your swap is probably not used at all. So placing swap at either the beginning or end of a hard drive is the best place for it.

When a file is accessed the disk arm is moved from wherever it is now to the next location. The disk arm does not go back to 0 between accesses. Therefore the most efficient way to locate files is to put the most frequently used files in the middle of the hard drive. Place the rarely used files like swap and boot at the beginning or end of the hard drive.

"then are there some often accessed files that is better to place on another drive ?"

I recommend that you put a /boot partition at the beginning of the first hard drive, a swap partition at the beginning of the second drive, the / partition in the middle of the first drive, and the /usr partition in the middle of the second drive.

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Steve Stites

Ok dude, store Music, document files, Vids, pics, and games on the HDD without tho OS

i'm new to linux but not a computer newbie
i still remeber when old computer with 1 mb of real storage were able to manage
all applications of an industry.....

with few resources available is the best field to learn tuning.....
i have also another computer with more power....

now i do not want to be polemics...
but if some people that intend computer only a tool to play music,video,games etc etc ...i inform this people that computer has been created as data elaborators....
then someone discovered how to add some features....(games etc etc)
take care

Maurizio

lol get out of the past, computers arent just made for busness stuff anymore. Most commoner's computers are used for media (music, vids, games, email, internet, so on so on). Also people like me take computers as an art. I build comps for people that want to do everyday things with them. And some of the best one's iv built are gaming computers. and guess what im 16 what do you expect

Yeah, I'd have to agree with that. That way, if you install more versions of Linux or get corrupted files and need to reformat the drive or something, all your personal stuff will be safe. (Nice to see another 16-year-old here, BTW )

ok...
no matter about what use we can do of our conputer....but .....
what about to returnt to original question:
where to place directory to avoid conflicts ?
thanks in advance

Maurizio