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Larsantos

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Registered: 2012-04-17

Posts: 15

[solved] Partition sugestion

Hi,

I have a netbook with a 32GB SSD and I'm going to install #! on it as sole OS.

I'm thinking on making a / partition, a /home partition and a swap partition but I'm a bit uncertain about the partitions size.

The most use of the netbook will be internet browsing, email checking, playing some (youtube) videos and music, light office usage and playing with programming.

I was thinking something like this:

/            8GB
/home  23GB
swap     1GB

Is this alright or should I change something?

On another aspect, do I need to do something special because the drive is a SSD?

I look foward to your input.

TIA

Last edited by Larsantos (2012-04-18 03:08:31)

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TitanMech

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From: Blue Zone 3

Registered: 2011-08-28

Posts: 930

Re: [solved] Partition sugestion

Maybe this would help:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ate-drive/

pvsage

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 13,282

Re: [solved] Partition sugestion

On another aspect, do I need to do something special because the drive is a SSD?

Unless you absolutely must have the ability to hibernate, you do not want to have a /swap partition on a SSD.  This is mostly because, while reads from SSD are typically faster than from a magnetic drive, writes are far slower.

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Larsantos

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Registered: 2012-04-17

Posts: 15

Re: [solved] Partition sugestion

Thank you for your advices, I should have searched before asking

I've followed the guide and almost everything worked, the scheduler didn't changed after I edited /etc/grub.d/10_linux and the TRIM test didn't "zeroed" the disk sector.

I'm posting the details on the relevant thread.

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