Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

> On Aug 24, 2019, at 4:18 PM, list@contacte.xyz wrote:
> 
> What would be the «best» to choose for an SSD in an usual desktop environment ?
> What would be the «best» to choose for an mechanical HD in an usual desktop environment ?

I don’t think there’s any difference between SSD and spinning disk (for the particular question of how many inodes are needed).

If your planned usage is “typical” then, for either type of hardware, “typical usage” is the right choice.  If you have a particular use in mind that is known to involve lots of small files, then “news” might be more appropriate.

As a real-world example, here’s a system I set up a couple of years ago (so it’s had enough time to reach an equilibrium state) with “typical usage” (the default).


rbthomas@monk:~$ df -ih | grep -v tmpfs
Filesystem                Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
udev                        3.0M   580  3.0M    1% /dev
/dev/mapper/monk--vg-root   1.8M  258K  1.5M   15% /
/dev/sda1                    61K   337   61K    1% /boot
/dev/mapper/monk--vg-home   5.3M   43K  5.2M    1% /home
/dev/mapper/monk-download    50M   374   50M    1% /download
/dev/mapper/monk-export      25M    18   25M    1% /export


Enjoy!
Rick