On Jul 22, 2012 11:23 PM, "Jacques Montier" <jmontier@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I have just a (maybe silly) question...
> I saw on some forums that partitionning SSDs could slow down read/write access.
> Is it true or simply intox ?
> On my sata HD, i have boot, /, usr and home separated partitions.
> What do you think of it ?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Cheers
>

My intuition said that separating a hard disk into several partitions should result in a slightly faster system, because writes to different partitions will not cause metadata contention (e.g., journal, volume bitmap, etc.)

But that's just my intuition; I'd be very interested in a definitive answer from anyone well-versed in filesystems.

Rgds,