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kerasi

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Registered: 2011-07-07

Posts: 39

SSD questions

hello

and a happy new year

i have a SSD Micron M4 256GB installed into my ThinkPad T420 and would know what filesystem you choose
what files have to be modified and what have to be written into the files?

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,331

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Re: SSD questions

There is a wiki on the different filesystems.  Threads asking questions like that are quickly TGN'ed.  But is the following a separate question?

what files have to be modified and what have to be written into the files?

To do what?

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ronmon

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Registered: 2011-04-15

Posts: 48

Re: SSD questions

The Wiki article is a good place to start.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD

I used btrfs for / and /home and have had no problems despite its official beta status. Don't forget to use the noatime (or relatime) and discard options in fstab.

graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

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Re: SSD questions

I like btrfs for load leveling but I do not like the status of the fsck util and file recovery options.  Stick to ext4 for now is my advice.  Also read the wiki page already referenced, then, re-read it

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teateawhy

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From: GER

Registered: 2012-03-05

Posts: 1,138

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Re: SSD questions

hello

and a happy new year

i have a SSD Micron M4 256GB installed into my ThinkPad T420 and would know what filesystem you choose
what files have to be modified and what have to be written into the files?

I think you have to read more to understand the basics.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_Systems
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning

Last edited by teateawhy (2013-01-10 19:38:58)

felixculpa

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From: Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2012-06-12

Posts: 268

Re: SSD questions

I would stick with ext4 and partition the drive for security as outlined here. Btrfs has some interesting sounding features but from what I've heard the potential for crashes and other problems is higher than a plain ext4 file system. For my fstab I have at a minimum, defaults,discard set for the options for each partition.