new partition scheme

markp1989 · 2009-04-12 12:34:50

I just brought a 30gb SSD

currently i have an 80gb and 160gb sata

partitioned as follows

80gb:
ext2 10gb ubuntu root
ext4 15gb arch root
ext4 rest arch home

160gb
ext3 all 1 data partition

when i add the new ssd drive, i was thinking of doing it like this

OCZ vertex 30gb
ext4 all as root for arch

80gb
ext2 15gb root for ubuntu
ext4 rest as arch home

160gb
ext3 all as data

any other methods you would sugest, or does this seem like a sensible solution

onguarde · 2009-04-15 09:13:45

Some benchmarking articles to screw your head over...

http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388

Personally,
Reiserfs seems to have frequent stability issues and slow mount times.
XFS is highly recommended all-rounded and fast fsck time.

Maybe the root partition should be made journaled too. You don't want it to corrupt bad during package upgrading.

For SSD, afaik it is important to minimize writes. Might wanna check out the SSD Specific Tweaks here,
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One

Also, you might want to disable noatime for speedups. Maybe hdparm etc. too.
http://lwn.net/Articles/244829/
http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148

markp1989 · 2009-04-15 18:41:43

onguarde wrote:

Some benchmarking articles to screw your head over...
http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388
Personally,
Reiserfs seems to have frequent stability issues and slow mount times.
XFS is highly recommended all-rounded and fast fsck time.
Maybe the root partition should be made journaled too. You don't want it to corrupt bad during package upgrading.
For SSD, afaik it is important to minimize writes. Might wanna check out the SSD Specific Tweaks here,
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One
Also, you might want to disable noatime for speedups. Maybe hdparm etc. too.
http://lwn.net/Articles/244829/
http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148

thanks for the links, will be reading thru them later. it wont be here till monday so i have time to decide
i been usiing an eee pc for the last year or so, so most of the tips for that will be transfered across, like tmpfs aswell,

i was thinking of using ext4, because thats what im using now, and it mounts fast, and does fast check disk.

Last edited by markp1989 (2009-04-15 18:43:39)

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#1 2009-04-12 12:34:50

new partition scheme

#2 2009-04-15 09:13:45

Re: new partition scheme

#3 2009-04-15 18:41:43

Re: new partition scheme

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