Discussions about Partitioning

2018-10-28 Thread Andreas Schindler
Partitions on SSD devices are contra productive altogether! Multiple partitions are relicts from times where storage was small and file systems were unreliable. Today you have huge (SSD-) disks along with gigabytes of very fast memory. Have your SSD device manage as much of it's space on it's

Re: Discussions about Partitioning

2018-10-28 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
Btrfs does copy on write (cow). It is the ideal file system to guarantee a shorter SSD life.If running btrfs on an SSD, the recommendation is to move /var to a non-ssd drive. I use btrfs on spinners but not with SSDs. Checkout the use of xfs for / and do make a separate /home, (with ext4 format).

Re: Discussions about Partitioning

2018-10-28 Thread Bjørn Mork
Leslie S Satenstein writes: > BTW, swap should be completely _unused_ during normal computer operation > if you don't want a snail slow machine. > Consider to install a swap file instead of a swap partition for the rare > cases where you run out of physical  memory. > > The only situation you r

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2018-10-28 Thread Richard