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 <rshep...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug