On 10/23/2015 02:21 PM, 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. :-) >
A SSD serves the following purposes: 1. Boot fast 2. save laptop battery life 3. speed up drive I/O intensive data access. (1) is irrelevant for most Linux distros, especially Slackware. How often will you reboot? (2) is very handy. Added 2+ hrs to a laptop battery life here. Irrelevant for wall plugged servers unless you a Google or Amazon, etc. (3) large databases, or processing any kind of large data sets. So, IMHO, a 60GB SSD is pretty much useless unless you run Windows. But since I never throw away hardware and a drive is a drive, put / (everything) on the SSD except these partitions on the WD HD: /home /var /tmp (or in tmpfs) and maybe /data for your big server data sets (web, mail, etc.). If you don't put much in /home that can shrink. use LVM on /data if you expect to need to resize/reallocate for more data. ext4 is fine for most uses and well supported. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-partition-scheme-4175435307/ http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/recommend-file-system-for-ssd-4175526275/ http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:install _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
