Re: Swap

2016-02-05 Thread Jos Collin
That's right. I'm able to hibernate, suspend and run many applications (I didn't try things like creating a squashfs ) at the same time using 3.8 GB of swap and 4gb of RAM. I was thinking of using 6gb swap for my new installation. But now I think in the new installation in my new SSD, I will just

Re: Swap

2016-02-05 Thread Tom Dial
Thank you; I did not know that, and it makes for a significant swap size reduction in nearly all cases of a desktop or laptop workstation. The other points, I think, are not much changed. For the case Jos Collin presented initially, (and noting his mention in another branch of 175 MB actually use

Re: Swap

2016-02-05 Thread Michael
Leslie, thanks you for the clarification. Apparently, my SSDs are still first generation and i still need to TRIM by OS. I heard of controllers with inbuilt auto-TRIM but wasn't sure if it's already standard. It's good to know ! Are you able to configure these features in your machines BIOS (or

Re: Aw: Change home and root directories

2016-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 10:29:54PM +0530, Jos Collin wrote: > Yes, I have seen that option. But what about putting /root in another disk ? Use the expert/manual partitioning option. All he best, AndyC

Aw: Re: Change home and root directories

2016-02-05 Thread Estelmann, Christian
Same way. You can enter as mount point of the partition what ever you like - /root, /foo, /bar, /catvideos You should not use /dev/null ;)   Gesendet: Freitag, 05. Februar 2016 um 17:59 Uhr Von: "Jos Collin" An: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Aw: Change home and root directories

Re: Aw: Change home and root directories

2016-02-05 Thread Jos Collin
Yes, I have seen that option. But what about putting /root in another disk ?

Re: Swap

2016-02-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> As for SSD specifics pls read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD > it's a nice overview. As you can see, for SSD, any disk operation is 'bad' > so you would try to put as much I/O as possible into RAM, for example avoid > swapping and following Matus' aboce suggestions. > ('bad' meaning tha

Aw: Change home and root directories

2016-02-05 Thread Estelmann, Christian
Hi,   yes, during the installation process you are asked how to partition the disk. Instead of selecting auto (which will only one partition for /) you can create the partitions as you like. So you can create an separate partiton for /home or use another disk.   Greetings, Christian Estelmann

Change home and root directories

2016-02-05 Thread Jos Collin
Hi I haven't used the Debian installer for almost 8 years now. Is it possible to change the location of home and root directories from Debian installer , during the installation process? I have 2 disks: an SSD where the root / partition resides and an HDD where the /home and /root directories res

Re: Swap

2016-02-05 Thread Michael
Hello, i'm interested in this topic too although i can't tell anything exciting new. But here's my opinion. As for SSD specifics pls read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD it's a nice overview. As you can see, for SSD, any disk operation is 'bad' so you would try to put as much I/O as po

Re: Swap

2016-02-05 Thread Jos Collin
Could you please give your suggestion for my questions (based on SSD) ? On 05-Feb-2016 11:59 AM, "Jos Collin" wrote: > I have 120GB HDD with 3.8GB swap at the moment. I have monitored the swap > usage for sometime, running frequently used applications and then > hibernate. It uses around 175MB ev