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#1 2013-01-03 21:55:16
- anarcho
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What to do with SSD on multi drive dual boot setup
At present on my main Desktop I have the following setup
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 18.6G 0 part /
└─sda2 8:2 0 447.1G 0 part /home
sdb 8:16 0 74.5G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 100M 0 part
└─sdb2 8:18 0 74.4G 0 part
sdc 8:32 0 232.9G 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 0 100M 0 part
└─sdc2 8:34 0 232.8G 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom It's a dual boot Arch and Windows using syslinux, however sdb is at present just sat doing nothing as a windows partition, so my question is should I use the solid state drive as my /root partition? I am very open to suggestions, Arch is my main OS as I only use Windows for occasional stuff.
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#2 2013-01-04 17:43:44
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Re: What to do with SSD on multi drive dual boot setup
Using it as your root filesystem will give you a substantial performance boost. In fact, using it for anything that requires performance will give you a huge performance boost; that's the whole idea behind having an SSD. So whatever might fit that bill would be a good start. I split mine between my root Arch partition, and a partition for Steam games.
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#3 2013-01-05 10:54:39
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Re: What to do with SSD on multi drive dual boot setup
I use my ssd for my root and boot partitions. My home folder is on a normal hdd, the boost is noticeable.
Arch is my main OS and I dual-boot with Windows (plan to stop when steam for linux works well enough).
There's lots of useful stuff on the wiki, it's worth a read
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#4 2013-01-06 13:06:09
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Re: What to do with SSD on multi drive dual boot setup
having your .files on the ssd can help *a lot* too, specially the firefox cache/databases and similar..
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#5 2013-01-07 09:57:38
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Re: What to do with SSD on multi drive dual boot setup
I’d definitely recommend putting ArchLinux on the SSD. In my experience, it makes great use of the SSD and the performance boost, especially booting the system, is quite noticeable.
I have a dual boot system myself but with one SSD for ArchLinux and another SSD for Windows, my gaming system. And my ArchLinux is way faster and responsive than Windows. All my data is located on a HDD. So, even my /home partition is located on the SSD but I use soft links that point to the HDD for all my music, videos, games, downloads and so on. Works like a charm.
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#6 2013-01-07 16:55:03
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Re: What to do with SSD on multi drive dual boot setup
Thanks for the suggestions, in the end I went for
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 74.5G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 74.5G 0 part /
sdb 8:16 0 232.9G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 100M 0 part
└─sdb2 8:18 0 232.8G 0 part
sdc 8:32 0 465.8G 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 465.8G 0 part /home
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom A bit extreme having a root partition of 74G, but figured it would be better for me personally, as if I'd split the SSD between / and /home it would mean constantly moving stuff out to make space, as my /home often gets rather full up quickly.
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