[Bug 821728] Re: Increasing hdd performance: Swap partition should be at the beginning of the hard disk drive

[Sworddragon]

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Title:
  Increasing hdd performance: Swap partition should be at the beginning
  of the hard disk drive

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 dev (it was installed from the Ubuntu 11.04
  alternate cd). At the installation process I have choosen a guided
  partition of my full hard disk drive. Ubuntu has created at first
  /dev/sda1 with 182,31 GB as /dev/sda1 and at the end the swap
  partition with 4 GB as /dev/sda2 -> /dev/sda5.

  I'm wondering why the swap partition is created at the end of the hard
  disk drive. On mechanical disks there are heavy negative performance
  impacts at this place. Only the first ~20%-25% of a hard disk drive
  are the fastest place with a constant speed (in my case ~40 GB). It
  would make more sense to place the swap partition at the beginning of
  the hard disk drive at default on a guided partition.

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