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

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 09:41, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> _Never ever_ install any Linux distro from a computer magazine's image!
> _Don't do it!_

Disagree.

Why not?

If you have allegations of insecurity,  modifications, I want to see citations.

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

Because it does not preserve permissions and other metadata. This is
*not*  the way to do it. Tar piped to untar would be better. Much
*much* easier to use a partition copying tool, such as Gparted on the
Ubuntu boot medium.

> 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.

Disagree.

Not because of the wearing-out-your-SSD thing; I agree with that.

No, I disagree because:
[1] Swap is almost redundant today. It's mainly for hibernation.
[2] Marco doesn't have enough RAM and as you say making swap faster
isn't the answer to that
[3] If you have both an SSD and HD, then swap on HD eliminates a
_potential_ issue with almost no penalty, so why not?

When I got rid of my main Thinkpad's HD, I just removed all swap and
configured ZRAM instead. It won't hibernate but I don't care; suspend
is good enough. It lasts for days, maybe even a week+ in suspend.

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