Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 12:18:14AM +0200 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > If you use ext4, run `dumpe2fs -h /dev/your-root-partition | grep Lifetime` > to see how much data has been written to that partition since you formatted > it. Just to get an idea of what you are looking at on your setup.
For comparison: I’m writing from my Surface Go 1 right now. It’s running Arch linux with KDE and I don’t use it very often (meaning, I don’t update it as often as my main rig). But updates in Arch linux can be volume-intensive, especially because there are frequent kernel updates (I’ve had over 50 since June 2020, each accounting for over 300 MB of writes), and other updates of big packages if a dependency like python changes. In Gentoo you do revdep-rebuild, binary distros ship new versions of all affected packages, like libreoffice, or Qt, or texlive. Anyways, the root partition measures 22 G and has a lifetime write of 571 GB in almost three years. The home partition (97 GB in size) is at 877 GB. That seems actually a lot, because I don’t really do that much high-volume stuff there. My media archive with all the photos and music and such sits on a separate data partition, which is not synced to the Surface due to its small SSD of only 128 GB. -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. We shall be landing shortly. Please return your stewardess to the upright position.
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