Re: should the swap file reside on a drive with data frequently accessed?

You do not need or require a separate partition just for the swap file. It's
putting the swap file on a separate drive that is an enhancement. Having 1Gb
of RAM has no bearing on the swap file though some would say it should be
2.5 times larger than your RAM. Re-partition that 20Gb drive to just one
partiton.

Moving My Documents is viable. The others - I've never heard of them.


"Rahul" <rpnabar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Since I was running out of space on my old 40 GB HDD (C:) I recently
added a new drive. This was an old piece lying around so is pretty
small for today (20GB) I started by formatting it and added a small
2GB partition(E:) at its very "front" to hold my swap file. (I've 1GB
RAM)

The remaining 17odd GB are free for "data" as a seperate
partition(F:). C: remains my master-drive with all my Windows and
other programs installed there. I probably want to keep those
untouched.

But now I have a choice as to what components I want to move to the
new drive(D:)!

The three targets that come to mind are:
(1)MyDocuments,
(2)GoogleDesktop Index,
(3)Thunderbird_IMAP_Offline_mailbox (rightnow that's a MASSIVE and
SUPER fragmented file; makes TB very unresponsive at times)

In the descending frequency order of file access requests these
probably are: (2), (3) (1)

Which should I put on the new physical drive. Note that the first
logical partition on this physical drive holds my swap file. So I
probably don't want to have anything on D: that would detract from the
swap access function, right?

Any suggestions?

-Rahul


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