Using a 40 gig SSD

J dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com
Sat Apr 10 18:42:38 UTC 2010


On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:55, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> My tuppen'orth:
>
> For a simple life, put / on the SSD and /home and the swap partition
> on rotating media. I see no particularly good reason for separate
> filesystems for /usr and /var on modern single-user machines. On a
> critical server with lots of storage, possibly, yes.

No reason for /usr, but I had also suggested /var and /tmp as both can
get a lot of I/O, potentially shortening the life of the SSD...  but
for everything else that isn't really written to a lot, yeah...




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