Am Sun, Jun 02, 2024 at 08:27:57AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I thought of something on the m.2 thing. I plan to put my OS on it. I > usually use tmpfs and compile in memory anyway but do have some set to > use spinning rust. Once I get 128GB installed, I should be able to do > that with all packages anyway but still, I had a question. Should I put > the portage work directory on a spinning rust drive to save wear and > tear on the SSD or have they got to the point now that doesn't matter > anymore? I know all the SSD devices have improved a lot since the first > ones came out.
We’ve had this topic before. You can do some archaeology with dumpe2fs and extrapolate: $ dumpe2fs -h /dev/mapper/vg-root ... Filesystem created: Sun Apr 17 16:47:03 2022 ... Lifetime writes: 877 GB So that’s around 900 GB in 2 years. This is an Arch system, so may not experience quite as many writes from updates (especially not from any on-disk emerging), but Arch does have its own share of volume-heavy upgrades. Just today, after being away on travel for 11 days, I had to download 2.5 GB and unpack over 8 GB of files. My home partition has accumulated 2600 GB in the same time. Firstly, it’s 200 GB in size vs. 45 GB for the root system. And secondly, sometimes the baloo file extractor runs amok and keeps writing gigabytes of index files. It’s an Evo 970 Plus 2 TB, so I just scratched its guaranteed lifetime write amount. -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. We don’t put a single drop of alcohol on the table... we pour very cautiously.
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