Check out the Multi-Disk-HOWTO on our favorite how-to mirror.  A 
section of this document discusses this.

Jay

On 24 May 01, at 13:30, Peter Clark wrote:


> (maybe). The next question, with a dual-boot computer where Linux is
> used 99.9% of the time, where is the best place to put Windows? At the
> beginning or end of a hard drive? (As though you were looking at, say,
> a disk partitioning line graph, with left being the beginning and right
> the end.)
>    The reasoning I follow is this. If we take the example of a record
> (as in LP, vinyl), a point in the outside moves faster relative to a
> point closer to the center. If hard drives were vinyl LPs, I would want
> to put the most speed-essential records (kernal, libraries, etc.)
> closer to the outside edge, yes? But do hard drives work this way? Or
> does the rotation slow as the drive head moves farther from the center?
>    If this hard drive physics is worth exploring, what on a hard drive
> corresponds to the outer edge of a record? Is it the first couple of
> sectors (assuming a single-partition drive) or the last? IOW, the left
> or right side of a partition bar graph? Or is the bar graph a
> convinient lie? Next, would it be advantagous to move certain files
> into those sectors, and, if so, which ones?
>    I suppose in these days of super-fast hard drives it really doesn't
> matter, but I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts.
>    :Peter
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