[PLUG] Using a SSD

Pete Lancashire pete at petelancashire.com
Thu Jan 9 22:45:05 UTC 2014


What's the chances of two SSD's ?

Today I pretty much do a RAID mirror by default.

My call keep swap off the SSD, it may be faster but keeping writes down is
important.

My 39 Cents

-pete


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

>    I'm finishing (finally) assembly of a new server/workstation. It has a
> 60G SSD drive as /dev/sda and a 750G mechanical hard drive as /dev/sdb. I'm
> collecting opinions on what partitions to mount on the SSD. So far I've
> received a few on linuxquestions.org and would like the thoughts of folks
> here.
>
>    The current partioning (which I've used for years) is:
>
> /dev/sda3        swap
> /dev/sda1        /
> /dev/sda2        /boot
> /dev/sda5        /home
> /dev/sda6        /usr
> /dev/sda7        /opt
> /dev/sda8        /var
> /dev/sda9        /tmp
>
>    Having multiple partitions should (still) allow quicker access.
>
>    A couple of folks on LQ suggested putting / and swap on the SSD. The
> Arch
> Linux wiki advises keeping /tmp on a mechanical drive to reduce writes.
> /home, /opt, /var can also be expected to have a lot of writes and a lot of
> small files.
>
>    I'm thinking of removing /boot as a separate partition and putting /,
> swap, and /usr on the SSD. I am, of course, open to suggestions. And I do
> need to learn about TRIM on ext4 (or one of the other file systems that
> support it).
>
>    All this after I get the current network running properly again.
>
> Rich
>
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