Using a 40 gig SSD

[Sandy Harris]

On 4/11/10, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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...

I ended up with /home /var & swap on rotating media, /tmp on
tmpfs. Seems to work very well. Booting & loading programs
are now much faster.