Using a 40 gig SSD

[J]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 09:50, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have acquired a 40 gig solid state disk, wonder how best to use it.
>
> Context is a single-user desktop, Xubuntu on 2666 MHz Core 2
> with 4 gigs of RAM. Current setup uses a hard drive with separate
> partitions for / /usr and /var with about 1, 7 and 1 gig used
> respectively.
>
> What file system should I consider for the SSD? Should I put
> only / and /usr there and have the more volatile /var on
> rotating storage? Any other advice?

you could put pretty much anything that doesn't get written to frequently...

so, assuming sda = hard disk and sdb = SSD:

sda = /home /tmp /var
sdb = /

or something along those lines...

one thing to consider, depending on whether this is an older SSD is
the access speed.  Not so much a concern with newer SSD but with the
older ones, read/write speed could be a bottleneck.

Cheers
Jeff