On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Ken Stephens wrote:
Rich Shepard wrote:
The new system has a 60G SSD drive and a 750G WD Caviar Black
drive. I've read enough to know that the SSD drive needs to be
tuned to work well with linux (and I have a bookmarked Web page
with explicit instructions and explanations for that). But, what
I've not found to my satisfaction are 1) what file system(s) to use
on each drive and 2) what partitions to put on the SSD.
One forum thread suggested putting /, /boot, /bin, /etc, and
/usr on the SSD drive since they have fewer writes than do
/usr/local, /opt, /home, /var, and /tmp. The latter group go on the
conventional, spinning HD.
Another thread (on a Ubuntu forum) was by a user who had
problems booting from the SSD; he could not partition it, IIRC.
I'll be running only Slackware on this system (as I do on all
my hosts), and I suspect that the distribution flavor makes no
difference in selecting an appropriate file system (or two) and a
partitioning scheme.
All your suggestions and recommendations are eagerly awaited.
Rich,
60GB is big enough to put all your system files on that. Put your
/home on the spinning drive. You will never run out of space. It
will be at least as fast as your previous system seemed when you
first loaded it up.
I'd tend to agree with this, assuming the SSD isn't old and/or used.
If it's fairly new, there's little chance you'll "wear it out" unless
you're doing high-frequency i/o 24x7.
If the drive is old (say, more than three years), then you might
consider putting /var on your spinning platter along with /home.
Some older mainboards have trouble booting from an SSD when there's a
tradition HD alongside it. I suspect testing is the only way to know.
In general, though, I'm with Ken: put your OS on the SSD.
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