[gentoo-user] SSD success - I think

2014-02-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, A week ago the 2.5 drive on my Atom LAN mini-server failed, so I decided to bite the bullet and replace it with an SSD. Interesting times! Today I took the box off-line and backed up the entire, newly built system to external USB2 disk. The 3GB took four minutes, a third or a

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD success - I think

2014-02-22 Thread thegeezer
Hello list, A week ago the 2.5 drive on my Atom LAN mini-server failed, so I decided to bite the bullet and replace it with an SSD. Interesting times! Today I took the box off-line and backed up the entire, newly built system to external USB2 disk. The 3GB took four minutes, a third or a

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD success - I think

2014-02-22 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 22.02.2014 15:47, schrieb Peter Humphrey: I find though that fstrim can't operate on /boot, which is a separate ext2 file system. It reports: fstrim: /boot: FITRIM ioctl failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Is this because it's an ext2 partition, not ext4 like the rest of them?

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD success - I think

2014-02-22 Thread Facundo Curti
Man fstrim makes no mention of file-system types. Maybe I've not laid out the partitions properly. I used gparted from a recent System Rescue CD (http://sysresccd.org), which said it was leaving 1MB unused before /dev/sda1. While I'm here, would anyone like to suggest suitable

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD success - I think

2014-02-22 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 22.02.2014 16:24, schrieb thegee...@thegeezer.net: you might want this to read relatime,discard to handle the trim automagically. if you are concerned about writes i'd suggest noatime for all of these noatime yes - you need atimes only with _ancient_ news/mail servers/clients. But I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD success - I think

2014-02-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 22 Feb 2014 14:47:54 I wrote: ---8 ... would anyone like to suggest suitable parameters to mkfs for any of my file-systems? Here's the fstab: ---8 Thank you gents for all your comments. I'm grateful. Here's what I think I should do as a result: 1. Keep relatime in