Ubuntu :: Where To Store System, Home And Swap Partitions On Two Disks

Dec 22, 2010

I have got 2 disks available and would like to create 3 main partitions: one for file system (maverick), one for home folder and one for linux swap.

I read many howtos and now I feel more confused!

I would like to obtain the more efficient solution in order of speed (performance): as far as I can understand (not so far) .. it seems that the best choice is:

Quote:

disk 1: [beginning] ubuntu | home | others [end]
disk 2: [beginning] swap | others [end]

My situation now is, according to guides I read before:

Quote:

disk 1: [beginning] ubuntu | others [end]
disk 2: [beginning] home | others | swap [end]

now .. before moving all my staff ..

I thought to have understood that ubuntu use swap only for hibernation / suspend activities, and therefore it's recommendable to put the system at the beginning of one disk, and the home folder at the beginning of a second disk in order to have quickly two disk reading / writing on the right position without moving too much and spend time.

But now I'm confused because it seems that ubuntu DOES use swap for normal activity (and so it's better to put it) at the beginning of a second disk.

I always saw my swap next to zero during my activities .. is ubuntu using swap like windows with pagefile.sys?

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