Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a Western Digital WD Blue SN550. I would like to set the system for reliability, SSD durability¹ and performance.
I have looked at [Multi HDD/SSD Partitioning Scheme][] but it is too complex and probably outdated (last modified 2013-10-17). I would like something simpler. For backups, I would continue my weekly manual backups to my 1.5 TB external HDD with duplicity. On the SSD I intend to leave 35 GB unpartitioned for extra over provisioning. It would have just one 215 GB partition. On the HDD I would put a 34 GB swap partition at the beginning, then a 215 GB partition for RAID1 with the SSD, then a 751 GB partition. I intend to put Debian system *and* /home on the 215 GB RAID1, but I would set all the XDG user dirs² on the 751 GB HDD partition. I would have tmpfs on /tmp---I have read that long thread where someone alleged that moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless but I disagree. Would all this be reasonable? Do you recommend any change? Any tip? I run Debian stable with only official repositories, including bullseye-backports. I also manually installed GNU Guix package manager and my main Guix profile has 163 packages. Regards! [Multi HDD/SSD Partitioning Scheme] https://wiki.debian.org/Multi%20HDD/SSD%20Partition%20Scheme ¹ According to its data sheet, the 250GB WD Blue SN550 endures 150TBW. ² See the xdg-user-dir manpage. -- - Many people hate injustice but few check the facts; this causes more injustice. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org> - I am Brazilian. I hope my English is correct and I welcome feedback. - https://www.defectivebydesign.org - https://www.gnu.org