Re: Debian Wheezy & SSD+HDD configuration
On Saturday, June 8, 2013 5:10:02 AM UTC-4, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 08 iun 13, 03:27:20, Fran wrote:
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> > Hello list,
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> > I just installed Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" on what I call my new workstation.
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> > It's a pretty standard setup: right now I installed Debian on the first
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> > SATA drive (a 120Gb SSD drive) and mounted my 1Tb HDD as my home
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> > partition with no problems at all.
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> Looks like a reasonable setup.
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> > I've been reading here and there though, and it's fair to say that the
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> > SSD stuff is kind of new to me. I found nice documentation in the Wiki
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> > (http://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization) but I hope you don't mind if I
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> > ask for your personal opinion about a few things:
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> The great thing about a wiki is that anyone can edit it. The bad thing
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> about a wiki is that anyone can edit it ;)
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> (you can quote me on this)
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> > - Do I really need to set up a complex configuration for partitioning
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> > like seen here (http://wiki.debian.org/Multi%20HDD/SSD%20Partition%
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> > 20Scheme)? Should I be worried for unexpected errors if not?
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> Well you didn't mention the SSD model, but generally no and no.
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> Do make good backups, but this is nothing SSD specific.
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> > - What are (if any) the *must take into account* aspects when working
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> > with an SSD on Debian? Are there any "new routines" I should be aware of
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> > right now?
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> Not really. Just make sure you used recent enough partitioning tools
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> (but as the wiki says, squeeze is ok already) and maybe set 'noatime'
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> (but since 'relatime' is default now the benefit is rather limited).
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> The default scheduler tweak also looks interesting, but again, you
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> probably won't feel the difference.
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> Did I mention you should have good backups? :p
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> Just sit back and enjoy the speed ;)
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> Kind regards,
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> Andrei
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Do you have any evidence to back up your statements? I had just bought a system76 laptop that is preinstalled with Ubuntu 13.04, and has a nice SSD and HDD setup. The problem is that the laptop's hdd comes unpartioned and unformatted, while the entire filesytem lives on the SSD. It is a very high-end laptop, and God forbid that anything happens to the SSD. Every article I look up in my research says that you must be going on a safari in your fstab and partitioning your SSD and HDD for certain file directories, even making space for /var in your RAM memory!
In short, I hope what you're saying is right, but I need to see a second opinion or a personal account that supports what you're saying before I make any changes to my storage devices.
PS:
My SSD specs are:
120 GB Intel 525 Series mSATA SSD
And my HDD specs are:
500 GB 7200 RPM SATA II
Thank you in advance!
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