Origin of "partition" in storage devices

[Grant Taylor]

On 2/1/22 2:14 AM, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote:
> There's several advantages to doing it that way, including balancing 
> wear on a disk (especially today, with SSDs), as a dedicated swap 
> partition could put undue wear on certain areas of disk.

I thought avoiding this very problem was the purpose of the wear 
leveling functions in SSD controllers.



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