TLDR: should I and how do I install OpenBSD with FDE leaving unallocated space for wear leveling
I know SSDs have an area not shown to the user that is there for wear leveling. I read the higher the SSD class and the higher its intended workload, the higher capacity percentage of the area. There are also recommendations to use less of an SSD leaving some space unallocated to help wear leveling keep cells healthy for longer time. In the case of OpenBSD FDE: 1. Does leaving some space unallocated help SSD health? 2. If yes, what is the right way to not grab the whole space? Grab the whole is the only thing the installer does automatically. __________________________________________ Actually, I have the OS already installed, but it feels like I did a mistake: it is a FDE the way installer did it but with disklabel partitions I left some space unused for wear leveling. I'm torn between 3 variants: 1. my setup makes no sense as FDE already takes full space so no help to wear leveling so I need to reinstall specifying smaller fdisk partition for FDE. 2. it might already help wear leveling with FDE spreading data from smaller disklabel partitions over larger FDE partition. 3. wear leveling will not benefit from unallocated space so I just should grow my last disklabel partition. Your kind explanations and suggestions are welcome
