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arch_fuz

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Registered: 2015-01-31

Posts: 34

partition design for hybrid drive

Hi everybody.

I have a laptop with a seagate hybrid drive.
Win 8.1 is preinstalled and will find itself later in a kvm vm.

gdisk (with live cd boot) shows one partition at the very end, spread over 8gb, code 8400, description intel rapid start.

I read the ssd will decide by itself (hardware logic) which data will make it there or not. Did I get this right and isn't linux involved in any way? I am afraid I missed something and have to use those 8gb for the root file system and make the other hd-space available by mounting to other mount points?

My guess is to keep the ssd-partition untouched, delete all the others and create one big partition for use with arch. I would like to encrypt it using luks and have lvm on top of it.
Is that the way to go, using 2 partitions in the end (1 ssd, 1 for the rest)? Or do you recommend another way?

Thanks for your help.
fuz

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: partition design for hybrid drive

AFAIK the Intel Rapid Start technology is Windows-only -- I have it on my laptop but disable it 'cos I dd'd over the original drive contents 4 hours after receiving the device...

I think the machine will boot straight to Windows if you leave the 8GiB partition there, but I could be wrong.

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JanVonNebenan

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Registered: 2015-02-02

Posts: 12

Re: partition design for hybrid drive

I read the ssd will decide by itself (hardware logic) which data will make it there or not. Did I get this right and isn't linux involved in any way?

I think this is correct, at least that't what implied here.