Format whole drive vs. partition

[Michael Hipp]

On 12/29/2012 12:53 PM, Dan Martin wrote:
> In that case, my only concern would be the lack of
> a swap partition on the secondary drive.  But, like what prompted
> your original question, this is something that I've read, but that I don't
> really understand--that is, how/why would a swap partition on each
> physical drive improve performance.

It's not something I ever give much thought to as my little systems basically 
never use much swap, but...

If you're using a lot of swap, having it spread across more spindles/channels 
could certainly speed things up, but it would be usage dependent. I'd think 
swap should be on the least busy drive which often would be the primary root 
drive, not the bulk data drives.

But having swap spread around to more drives also makes it prone to more 
failures, so I'd be careful of that.

Michael