Re: [PLUG] SSD & HDD Partition Plan Suggestions

["Gavin W. Burris" <bug@sas.upenn.edu>]

Hi Casey,

My main computer is a netbook with a Corsair SSD, hooked to an external
LCD when at a desk.  I would suggest putting your home directory on the
SSD, also.  If you have enough memory, most of the OS will be cached in
memory anyway, but your home directory files will be constantly read and
re-written for your interactive applicatons.

There are tricks to mounting various temp and cache directories into
RAM, too, like so, in /etc/fstab:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=256M 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,size=64M 0 0
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,size=32M 0 0
firefox /home/bug/.mozilla/firefox/ctso8j3d.default/Cache tmpfs
defaults,size=32M,uid=500,gid=500,exec 0 0


Cheers.

On 10/20/2011 06:27 AM, Casey Bralla wrote:
> I'm planning on upgrading my desktop system to add an SSD and am looking for 
> suggestions from this august group to maximize system speed.
> 
> My current plan is to:
> 
> - Buy a ~60 GByte drive (seems to be the price/capacity sweet spot)
> - Partition the SSD for / & /boot
> - Partition the HDD for /home, /var, /tmp
> - NFS for my /docs, /music, & other data files
> 
> Does this sound reasonable?  Anything else that should be forced to either the 
> SSD or the HDD?
> 
> 
> BTW, Since the SSD is only 60 GBytes, I expect it to become obsolete long 
> before it wears out, so I'm not so concerned about limiting the number of 
> writes to the SSD.  Therefore, I'm planning on continuing to use a journaled 
> file system on it.

-- 
Gavin W. Burris
Senior Systems Programmer
Information Security and Unix Systems
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
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