Best partitioning?

[O. Sinclair]

On 01/05/2014 10:20, errol at tzora.co.il wrote:
> Thanks for your replies, Cody & David. The reason for me asking the
> question is that I want to get to optimum usage from my setup. The
> 120giga is a ssd. The idea was to put all Linux related stuff (including
> /home) on the ssd BUT then I read somewhere that too much use of the ssd
> will "wear it out". So then I thought of putting my /home on the sata
> drive. Also I haven't worked out how to partition the ssd if I put the
> /home on it beacause I also intend to have a few OS's as virtual
> programs. Still undecided.
> Errol
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Kuntadi <d.kuntadi at gmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:41
> Subject: Re: Best partitioning?
> To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>  > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Cody Smith
>  > <cody.smith9202 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > considering you have what is considered a SSD, I recommend
>  > putting all but
>  > > /home, /var, and /tmp on the SSD and the rest on the 1TB hdd.
>  >
>  > I think that would be a waste of 1TB, just to host bin
>  > etc  lib   mnt
>  >   root  srv boot  opt sbin dev media usr which
>  > will never reach 1TB
>  > unless you are crazy enough to install as many software as you
>  > can on
>  > your computer.
>  > In my opinion, you could put /home on the 1TB hdd, and the rest
>  > at the ssd.
>  > Or, you could put all in the  ssd, and mount 1TB at
>  > /media/Data to
>  > keep all your data.
>  >
There is no "perfect" answer to this. Depending on how much data you 
have the 1 TB should be your choice for /home even though it will be 
slower in reading/writing your files.

having it all on the SSD renders the 1 Tb kind of useless. I think if I 
were you I would put all but /home on the SSD, thus getting fast boot 
(hopefully) and fast software loading. And at the same time having a 
huge storage for files of whatever kind.

regards
Sinclair