Re: Progress on my new Debian box
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:26:48 +0100
Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 07:16:27PM +0200, Bzzzz wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400
> > Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM,
> > > 240GB SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black for /var, /tmp, /run,
> > > and swap partition,
> >
> > As a SSD has limited write capacities, people usually avoid
> > using it for things that are often (re)written.
> > Unfortunately, you just indicate _all_ wrong directories to
> > store on a SSD…
>
> Try again. The "often (re)written" directories are on a WD spinning
> disk. His data (not sure if that includes homes, but if not I would
> strongly advise it) is on yet another spinning disk.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
Yes, I should clarify. The following is the contents of my mount
command:
http://paste.debian.net/106401
The one with a UUID device, mounted to /, is really /dev/sda, the
SSD. /dev/sdb is the 3TB WD green for my data, and /dev/sdc is the 750GB
WD black, which is faster than the green, is for the changing part of
the OS and for my swap partition.
The idea was that I rely on my own discipline not to put any frequently
changing stuff on /dev/sda.
By the way, the following command shows that my SSD supports trim:
hdparm -I | grep -i trim
And so I can use the following command every once in a while to put no
longer used disk sections back in the pool:
fstrim -v /
Like mentioned in a previous message, on this box I went cheap rather
than going full-featured, so I anticipate using it only 2 years. I hope
the next one has 64GB RAM, and I hope by that time SSD storage is a lot
cheaper and more forgiving of a lot of writes.
SteveT
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