[H-GEN] partition advice

[Paul Gearon]

Hi all,
I've just acquired a new HDD which I intend to install Debian on.  It's very
fast, and reasonably large (9GB).  It'll be the only drive running Linux.

Now I've normally been pretty lazy when it came to partitioning my drives,
but this time I've decided to try to squeeze as much out of it as I could.
I recall some time back (over a year???) someone asked a similar question
about size/position of partitions, but I can't find the thread.  From
memory, someone (Robert?) suggested having the swap partition first for
reasons of speed, but I really don't recall all that much about it.

Can anyone help?

TIA.
Paul

Paul Gearon
gearon at computer.org

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