In article <20120413155934.fcdaa9db.thea...@melvilletheatre.com>,
Frank Cox <thea...@melvilletheatre.com> wrote:
> I just ordered  a new machine that's destined to become a Centos 6 application
> server for a publishing company, and decided to get one with a 40GB SSD as 
> well
> as a standard hard drive.
> 
> I'm thinking that I can put most of the operating system on that drive and 
> have
> the home directories and whatnot on the regular hard drive.  Are there any
> pitfalls lying in wait for an unwary person like me when setting this thing 
> up?
> 
> Further, I suspect that if that thing rattles along like I think it should 
> I'll
> probably want to add a SSD to my own desktop machine here.  Since this 
> computer
> is already set up with the default Centos 6 partitioning system on a single 
> hard
> drive (/boot, /home and /) is there an easy way to transfer the OS to the SSD 
> or
> would I be better off reformatting this thing and starting over from scratch 
> if
> I want to have a SSD for my boot and OS drive?

I haven't tried it, but my natural reaction would be to have /home and /var on
the regular HD, and also /tmp if it's not on tmpfs. Then /boot and the rest of /
on the SSD.

Cheers
Tony

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Tony Mountifield
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