Question #79072 on Ubuntu changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/79072
Tom proposed the following answer: HI :) Having the OS & programs all on one partition & then another partition for the linux-swap partition on one SSD-drive with all the data & settings on one partition on another drive is probably going to make your system hugely fast and very robust. Of course 1 thing we really don't have to worry about in linux is viruses because great care is taken to build security into every level of linux, even into the ethos of it. No-one profits from viruses in linux, they would just slow development down and distract focus from much more intriguing, interesting and exciting work. Also the kudos or infamy and satisfaction that virus writers can only get in the Windows world from writing viruses is much more likely to be gained in linux by writing proper applications. Elegant code written in linux can easily be admired by a great many people but in Windows it would all get hidden away and code-writers tend to be treated with suspicion being barred from seeing too much of the bigger picture. The Ubuntu OS & programs are best not split up into separate partitions and drives although if you really must then i'm sure it's possible. Mostly people just install their /home folder (that contains all the data and settings) onto a separate partition, better still if that's on a separate drive. The big question then is where to put the swap? Since the ram & swap work very tightly together at the same time as constant read/writes are needed to the OS&progs it would normally make sense to have swap on a separate drive so that the read/write head wouldn't be forced to constantly bounce around between swap and OS&progs. Also the speed of read/writes to both swap and OS&progs is a key factor in how faster your OS runs. However SSD's work very differently and are very much faster so it seems perfect for putting both the swap and the OS&progs on the one SSD drive. It's better to have the swap on a separate drive from the data because the data gets copied into swap caches so that it's queued up ready in advance of being called by the cpu into ram. It helps a lot if the read/write head that's dealing with data doesn't have to bounce backwards and forwards across the drive. All this assumes you have low ram or high demands of course. If you have a lot of ram and just do text-editing then your swap space will probably never get used at all because ram will be able to cache all read/writes without getting close to being full. Ubuntu OS&progs only needs about 5Gb, even that is very generous. The swap only needs to be about twice the size of your ram although it could happily be as small as ram. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq Which leaves you with a huge amount of empty space on your SSD-drive - perhaps for other OS's, other versions of linux or even other *nixs and possibly even Windows too? Anway, i hope some of these random thoughts help - if they just make any sense that would be great! Good luck and regards from Tom :) -- You received this question notification because you are a member of UF Unanswered Posts Team, which is an answer contact for Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
