On Sat, 24 Oct 2015, King Beowulf wrote: > 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?
When Pat and crew release a new distribution version ... or the system hangs or fails. > (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. So, not an issue here, either. > (3) large databases, or processing any kind of large data sets. This is worth considering. > 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. If I were buying hard drives now my choices would be different than they were when I assembled this hardware. However, given that I have vastly excessive HDD space I might as well use it. Since I am not supporting a bunch of users my decisions are less critical than were I setting up a company or department server. Thanks again, Ed, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
