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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Joe Zeff wrote:

> 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.  And, if you're
> using ext4, there's no reason for a separate /boot, either.

  does an f17 install *require* me to create a swap partition?
since, as it stands, i don't think i need one.  my laptop has 16G of
RAM and right now, even in the middle of an openembedded build, i have
piles of RAM to spare:

$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      16412164   11546132    4866032          0     538128    7805748
-/+ buffers/cache:    3202256   13209908
Swap:     31250428          0   31250428
$

  i can always just throw a swap partition on the regular hard drive,
knowing that it's unlikely to ever be used.

rday

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