OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:

>
> I don't know, if this would be an option to you, but if I were you, I'd
> consider a smaller SSD in combination with a bigger HDD.
>
> Somewhat simplified, my partition scheme is /home on HDD and all the rest
> (including /var) on SDD. From my experience, using this scheme, a 128GB SSD
> is way more than sufficient for Fedora. A 64GB SSD would also work, but
> then diskspace on SSD will be tight - Certainly, YMMV ;)


That's the setup I essentially have now with two standard drives. My
original plan was to get a 64GB SSD just for root but now that I have a
drive failing I'm modifying it a bit.

My BackupPC folder is about 190GB (backs up my home from the other drive,
yes, if the whole system goes I'm screwed but at least the data is on two
different drives; my HTPC, and my wife's laptop). That's why I'm looking at
a 256GB SSD. A little bigger would be awesome but not in the budget.

Here's my current disk usage:
$ df -hx tmpfs
Filesystem                     Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_hobbes-lv_root   29G   20G  8.1G  71% /
/dev/mapper/vg_home-lv_home    909G  521G  347G  61% /home
/dev/sda1                      969M  139M  764M  16% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_hobbes-lv_var   429G  189G  221G  47% /var

I made /boot big because I sometimes put bootable ISO's there (like System
Rescue CD) but I think I can safely bump that back down to 500MB.

"/" I'm using about 20GB, I don't see that growing much so I'll probably
shrink that partition to 25GB, 5 GB of additional packages would be a LOT.

Thanks,
Richard
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