On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Ken Stephens wrote:

> 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.

Ken,

   Looking at df I see that / and /usr consume only about 30 M. With the main
distribution files in /usr the only writing will be for upgrade patches so
there's plenty of room on it. Yes, the partitions with more writes,
/usr/local, /opt, /home, /tmp, and /var will go on the huge (for me) 750G
HHDD. The existing drive is 500G and I use only a portion of it.

   However, I'm collecting envirionmental data wherever I can so the HDD room
will be handy.

   As an interesting (to me, at least) aside, a thread or two suggested that
SSDs need firmware updates and not all can be updaged within linux. The one
I have but never used is about 4 years old. Looking at SSD reviews showed
Samsung, Crucial, and Kingston, but no OCZ. So, I just ordered a Samsung
250G SSD, probably for less than I paid for the OCZ 60G drive in 2011.

> Just my $0.02.

   Always worth the price, Ken.

Thanks very much,

Rich
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