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On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 02:40:09PM +0000, Simon Waters wrote: > Robin Cornelius wrote: > > > > (the bigger problem will be solved by issuing "rm /mnt/windows/ -r --force") "rm -rf /mnt/windows" is less to type. "mke2fs -j /dev/hda1" is likely to do the job quicker :) > > I saw a post suggesting Linux underperforms by being at the end of disk > drives, where seek is longer, so for best performance remember to just > reformat when doing the Linux install ;-) Thing is that with modern drives the geometry given by the controller is likely to have little meaning in terms of where the data physically ends up. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.