reinstalling on SSD, adding /home (and swap???) later, was: Safest way to resize windows partition before installing

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 21:17:39 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
>Now my plan is to:
>
>1) put the SSD drive into the laptop
>2) install Ubuntu on it, from the DVD drive, because I got the DVD
>   from Linux Magazine

_Never ever_ install any Linux distro from a computer magazine's image!
_Don't do it!_

>3) remove the DVD drive, replace it with the current SATA drive inside
>   the caddy
>   
>4) reboot, tell Linux to reduce (of 4/8 GB?) the Linux partition on
>   the SATA drive and mount it as /home, make a swap partition of
>   those 4/8 GB, tell Grub to also add WIndows on the SATA drive to
>   the boot options.

Why don't you run "sudo cp -a" all directories from the current drive to
the new SSD?

>https://askubuntu.com/questions/652337/why-no-swap-partitions-on-ssd-drives

This is too stupid, to waste my time with reading it. Yes, using a SSD
does cause wear, using a HDD does cause wear, too. While it is
possible to use Linux without swap, it's not recommended to do so. It
doesn't matter if it does or doesn't shorten lifetime. We buy SSDs to
use them, not to handle them with kid gloves. 

>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/673809/ssd-with-or-without-swap-partition/

I didn't read this thread. FWIW very much RAM does not replace a swap!
Actually you even do not need to use a swap with very less RAM, but
it's recommended to use a swap, independent of the amount of RAM.

There indeed is less usage of the swap when much RAM is available and
much swap usage with less RAM, however, Linux does use all available
RAM resources and swap could be useful.

Regards,
Ralf

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