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kostajh

Member

Registered: 2013-09-02

Posts: 2

Best use of secondary 16GB SSD on Thinkpad T430

Hello all,

I'm new to the (Arch) Linux world. I'm running Arch on a Thinkpad T430 which in addition to a 500GB 7200 RPM primary drive, has a 16GB SSD onboard.  I've read the wiki page on Partitioning and read another page cautioning about using an SSD for partitions that have frequent read/write activity.

I'm interested to improve the performance of the laptop, and would like to utilize the SSD to speed things up.

I would be grateful if anyone had suggestions or recommendations on utilizing the 16GB SSD for `/` (maybe 16 gb is not enough?) & `/boot` or `/var`.

Thanks!

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Best use of secondary 16GB SSD on Thinkpad T430

I can fit my whole system into 16 GB.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bcache

kostajh

Member

Registered: 2013-09-02

Posts: 2

Re: Best use of secondary 16GB SSD on Thinkpad T430

Thanks @karol, I will look into that.