Hey, thanks for the prompt reply. Yes, I intended to say "/", not "/root". As for the ext2 for the /boot partition, I think that it was important when bootloaders were not able to read ext4. You are probably right though, a /boot formatted as ext4 probably makes a lot more sense.
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Vincenzo Ampolo <vincenzo.amp...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 11/03/2013 03:04 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote: > > The two issues I was trying to get a concrete answer on is: (1) is it > > really beneficially to have a separate boot partition and (2) is it wise > > to use a swap partition with a SSD? > > Your questions are legit and I don't think there is a unique answer IMHO. > > Even tho I find odd to have a separate /boot partition, it makes > stranger to me to see it as an ext2 partition that doesn't have > journaling and it's too phrone to corruption due to power loss. > > About /root it really depends which distro you are going to use, if you > use ubuntu, /root will be unused. Or maybe you wanted to say / ? > > I used to separate / and /home but this lead to a problem: what if you > have used all 35gb of / and you want to install another program ? That's > why i stopped separating /home from / such that my /home just takes the > space it needs to. Saying that having a separate /home is better for > updates/formatting may be true, but it's 2 years i don't format anymore :D > > About the swap, I took it off but I've a System76 Galago ultrapro with > 240gb ssd and 16gb ram. With 16gb of ram, swap is only needed if i want > to hibernate, and hibernate 16gb of ram means having 16gb less on my > 240gb hard drive. Things i don't want. I'm better of with a suspend or a > proper shutdown in a full SSD system. > > So i ended up with this configuration: > > goshawk@earth:~$ df -hT > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 btrfs 224G 38G 186G 17% / > none tmpfs 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup > udev devtmpfs 7.8G 4.0K 7.8G 1% /dev > tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 1.1M 1.6G 1% /run > none tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock > none tmpfs 7.8G 17M 7.8G 1% /run/shm > none tmpfs 100M 52K 100M 1% /run/user > /dev/sda1 btrfs 224G 38G 186G 17% /home > /home/goshawk/.Private ecryptfs 224G 38G 186G 17% /home/goshawk > goshawk@earth:~$ > > Which is, simply a / of 240gb with btrfs. And i use the btrfs ability to > take snapshots if I want to do backups of / or /home. > > -- > Vincenzo Ampolo > http://vincenzo-ampolo.net > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >
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