Origin of "partition" in storage devices

[Cameron Kaiser]

>> 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.

Yeah, it's all block level now. The controller shouldn't care about the purpose
of an individual block.
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