On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, King Beowulf wrote: > Complex partition schemes are a relic of the past when hard drives where > unreliable, expensive and tape drive backup was slow. Its a bit overkill > these days. Opinions will vary on this, and have generated a number of > flame wars, but mainly all anyone needs is / (with all misc directories), > /home and /swap.
Ed, Aha! Now that makes perfect sense to me. I started with a Seagate 225 (25M) HD in 1984 with a tape backup (don't remember the brand), and have continued with multiple partitions since then. > its funny how people are so concerned with "wearing out the SSD," that > they put all the wrong stuff on it. If you want to make good use of the > SSD speed, partition in such a way that the hard drive I/O heavy apps run > off it - as in /home and where ever you put the databases and web server > data. Data R/W speed to the drive is far more important than how fast you > can boot. For my situation, speed is not a concern. The failing box continues to run 32-bit Slackware and the only time I notice a speed issue is when downloading a huge file (such as LO) and that's a result of the limited speed of my ADSL connection. The heavy number crunching for statistical and spatial models is done almost exclusively in RAM so disk speed is not a limiting factor. Most of my time is spent writing (LaTeX/LyX) or doing research on the Web. With the former, the system is waiting for my next keystroke and the latter is limited by external factors. Thanks for the cogent explantion of partitioning schemes, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
