On 2020-10-11 17:45 +0100, mick crane wrote: > Bearing in mind I rarely do installs and when I do usually let the > installer do its thing. > Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid > writes to SSD for longevity.
No, you are not. I put an SSD into my desktop computer almost four years ago, and its "Percentage Used Endurance Indicator" is currently at 12%, so it probably will be good for another twenty years or longer. > Is it a matter of putting entries in fstab for /swap /var /home to > suitably formatted partitions on HDD ? > Or is there more to it ? My advice would be to only use the HDD for big data files where speed is no concern, e.g. your music/picture/video collection and such. Everything else can go onto the SSD. Cheers, Sven