[ale] On swap space (was Re: who is eating my drive)

[thehead at patshead.com (Pat Regan)]

On Tue, 31 May 2011 18:01:17 -0400
Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know the extended partition stuff is DOS relic configuration
> workarounds. Does a Linux system really care about where a partition
> is? Is it just "drive space" as far as the kernel is concerned or are
> partitions in the extended one treated differently? This is only in
> reference to modern SATA drives. I know old kernels with really old
> drive (early IDE stuff) it did matter.

The only (minor) difference between locations on a spinning drive is
the speed.  One end of the drive has higher sequential throughput than
the other.  I've never had much luck trying to make sure of that fact
in practice, though.

Pat