On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > GrzeĊ Andruszkiewicz wrote: > > Does the Debian installer work out of the box for SSDs? > > Wheezy 7.0, yes. Squeeze 6.0, no. > > > I.e. I heard that you need to align the partitions to 32bit virtual > > clusters (is it actually true?). > > The Wheezy 7.0 installer will do the right thing automatically. > > Earlier in this mailing list there has been much discussion about > partition alignments because people see what looks like wasted space > but is there specifically to work with the new advanced format > partitioning. It will work fine. > > > Are there any other things I need to take into account while > > installing Debian on SSD? > > No. You can install and use it and never know the difference. > > Optionally however there are some changes that you _may_ make to to > improve performance. But it will also work acceptably well (you won't > notice) without doing anything. (But adding "discard" to ext4 > filesystems may improve performance by making the trim command > available. I haven't done it because I am still running Stable > Squeeze 6.0 on my SSD.) > > There is a wiki page with various information. It is probably more > information than really needed. It has seen a long evolution of edits > to get to this point in time. I think I would ignore about half of > it. The problem is research each item and deducing which half. > > http://wiki.debian.org/SSDoptimization
This page, as you pointed out, is more than a guideline. Can someone please polish this up a little bit? That would be a wonderful and appreciative. > > > Bob >
