<div dir="ltr"><div>Hey, thanks for the prompt reply. </div><div> </div><div>Yes, I intended to say "/", not "/root". As for the ext2 for the /boot partition, I think that it was important when bootloaders were not able to read ext4. You are probably right though, a /boot formatted as ext4 probably makes a lot more sense.</div>
<div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Vincenzo Ampolo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vincenzo.ampolo@gmail.com" target="_blank">vincenzo.ampolo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 11/03/2013 03:04 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:<br>
> The two issues I was trying to get a concrete answer on is: (1) is it<br>
> really beneficially to have a separate boot partition and (2) is it wise<br>
> to use a swap partition with a SSD?<br>
<br>
</div>Your questions are legit and I don't think there is a unique answer IMHO.<br>
<br>
Even tho I find odd to have a separate /boot partition, it makes<br>
stranger to me to see it as an ext2 partition that doesn't have<br>
journaling and it's too phrone to corruption due to power loss.<br>
<br>
About /root it really depends which distro you are going to use, if you<br>
use ubuntu, /root will be unused. Or maybe you wanted to say / ?<br>
<br>
I used to separate / and /home but this lead to a problem: what if you<br>
have used all 35gb of / and you want to install another program ? That's<br>
why i stopped separating /home from / such that my /home just takes the<br>
space it needs to. Saying that having a separate /home is better for<br>
updates/formatting may be true, but it's 2 years i don't format anymore :D<br>
<br>
About the swap, I took it off but I've a System76 Galago ultrapro with<br>
240gb ssd and 16gb ram. With 16gb of ram, swap is only needed if i want<br>
to hibernate, and hibernate 16gb of ram means having 16gb less on my<br>
240gb hard drive. Things i don't want. I'm better of with a suspend or a<br>
proper shutdown in a full SSD system.<br>
<br>
So i ended up with this configuration:<br>
<br>
goshawk@earth:~$ df -hT<br>
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br>
/dev/sda1 btrfs 224G 38G 186G 17% /<br>
none tmpfs 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup<br>
udev devtmpfs 7.8G 4.0K 7.8G 1% /dev<br>
tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 1.1M 1.6G 1% /run<br>
none tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock<br>
none tmpfs 7.8G 17M 7.8G 1% /run/shm<br>
none tmpfs 100M 52K 100M 1% /run/user<br>
/dev/sda1 btrfs 224G 38G 186G 17% /home<br>
/home/goshawk/.Private ecryptfs 224G 38G 186G 17% /home/goshawk<br>
goshawk@earth:~$<br>
<br>
Which is, simply a / of 240gb with btrfs. And i use the btrfs ability to<br>
take snapshots if I want to do backups of / or /home.<br>
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Vincenzo Ampolo<br>
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