"best practices" for using a small SSD boot drive and a big regular one?

[J.Witvliet at mindef.nl]

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From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Joe Zeff
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 11:41 PM
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: "best practices" for using a small SSD boot drive and a big regular one?

On 07/13/2012 01:30 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> I would consider having
>
>   /boot
>   swap
>   /
>
> on the SSD.

Not swap.  If you really need swap, it gets written to over and over, 
which isn't exactly the best thing for an SSD.  

Indeed.
That is how I destroyed my first sdd.
First it worked flawlessly, but after about 6 months bad block started to appear on the ssd.

Swap is something like the safety-lane on the motorway, one shouldn´t need to use it too often, but it should be there because otherwise OOM kicks in with unpredictable results.

If you have enough mem, try moving things like /var/run, /tmp and /var/tmp to tmpfs: no need for them on ssd

Hw


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