I'm finishing (finally) assembly of a new server/workstation. It has a 60G SSD drive as /dev/sda and a 750G mechanical hard drive as /dev/sdb. I'm collecting opinions on what partitions to mount on the SSD. So far I've received a few on linuxquestions.org and would like the thoughts of folks here.
The current partioning (which I've used for years) is: /dev/sda3 swap /dev/sda1 / /dev/sda2 /boot /dev/sda5 /home /dev/sda6 /usr /dev/sda7 /opt /dev/sda8 /var /dev/sda9 /tmp Having multiple partitions should (still) allow quicker access. A couple of folks on LQ suggested putting / and swap on the SSD. The Arch Linux wiki advises keeping /tmp on a mechanical drive to reduce writes. /home, /opt, /var can also be expected to have a lot of writes and a lot of small files. I'm thinking of removing /boot as a separate partition and putting /, swap, and /usr on the SSD. I am, of course, open to suggestions. And I do need to learn about TRIM on ext4 (or one of the other file systems that support it). All this after I get the current network running properly again. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
