From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 8 14:09:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E311065672 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:09:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505c.appriver.com [98.129.35.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527CB8FC18 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:09:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.15 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht02.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: G173 G174 G175 G176 G180 G181 G192 G279 X-Note: Encrypt Rule Hits: X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.15] (HELO ht02.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.2) with ESMTPS id 26649163 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:09:49 -0600 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.200]) by ht02.exg5.exghost.com ([98.129.23.15]) with mapi; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:09:49 -0600 From: Peter Steele To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:09:48 -0600 Thread-Topic: Should root partition be first partition? Thread-Index: AcqoyF/QnIkP4rLkQ5CGrawwVPme9w== Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB383B25CD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Should root partition be first partition? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:09:51 -0000 I've set up a system with gpart and have the swap partition first followed = by root, var, and so on. This works fine but I've seen documents that alway= s have root first, then swap. Is there any reason that root should be the f= irst partition or can it follow swap space?