Installation details - Corsair Force 3 SSD

[Hondo]

I wanted to install my root directory and swap to a 64gb SSD and my /home and other directories/files/partitions to a 320gb hard drive.

Here's what I did -

1st, I had to set the BIOS in the mobo to IDE native- the MyLiveCD, regular livecd or Gparted LiveCD would not boot in ACHI mode, only IDE Native.

Then I installed PCLinuxOS from MyLiveCD without any problems. Well, I did have to open a Terminal and type in draklive-install to get the process underway.

On my 1st reboot, everything was fine, but the SSD wasn't as fast as I thought it would be.

So I went back into the BIOS and changed the SATA controller from Native IDE to ACHI.

It was a huge improvement! Boot and application loading times are very fast.

For those that might be wondering, here's how I setup the partitions-

Corsair Force 3 64gb SSD-

- 48gb - root /
- 8gb - swap

Western Digital 320gb hard drive-

- 97gb /home
- 117gb /storage
- 83gb /backup

[pags]

If I may ask, why did you want SWAP on the SSD?  You're not concerned with the number of writes being made to a (relatively) small number of cells?

Also, depending on the amount of memory you have, did you consider putting /tmp into RAM?

[Hondo]

A couple of reasons-

I didn't want /home on the SSD, just root. But the SSD was 64 GB so I decided to install the swap there to take up 8gb of it (that's how much ram I have) in order to have Hibernation available.

Didn't know about having /tmp into ram - care to explain that to us?

[Bald Brick]

A couple of reasons-

I didn't want /home on the SSD, just root. But the SSD was 64 GB so I decided to install the swap there to take up 8gb of it (that's how much ram I have) in order to have Hibernation available.

Didn't know about having /tmp into ram - care to explain that to us?

PCC -> "Boot" -> "Set up boot system" -> "Advanced" -> tick "Clean /tmp at each boot".

This won't actually clean /tmp at each boot, but it will add the line

Code:

none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0

to your /etc/fstab, and after that /tmp will be on a tmp filesystem in RAM (and actually cleaned at shutdown).

For more information about tmpfs:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs3/index.html

[Hondo]

A couple of reasons-

I didn't want /home on the SSD, just root. But the SSD was 64 GB so I decided to install the swap there to take up 8gb of it (that's how much ram I have) in order to have Hibernation available.

Didn't know about having /tmp into ram - care to explain that to us?

PCC -> "Boot" -> "Set up boot system" -> "Advanced" -> tick "Clean /tmp at each boot".

This won't actually clean /tmp at each boot, but it will add the line

Code:

none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0

to your /etc/fstab, and after that /tmp will be on a tmp filesystem in RAM (and actually cleaned at shutdown).

For more information about tmpfs:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs3/index.html

Thanks! I added that option & all looks well -

[pags]

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Thanks! I added that option & all looks well -

If you're happy with running temp this way (and in most general use cases, with 8G RAM you'll be more than fine...bearing in mind that something like remastering may have trouble if it runs out of space in /tmp/), you could consider changing your ~/tmp/ directory (the one in your /home) to a symlink to /tmp/.
Like this:

Code:

[jpaglia@paglia-e6500 ~]$ ls -l
total 64
drwxrwxr-x  3 jpaglia jpaglia  4096 Jan  3 13:43 bin/
drwxr--r--  2 jpaglia jpaglia  4096 Jan  3 13:50 Desktop/
drwx------ 39 jpaglia jpaglia 12288 Jan 19 08:43 Documents/
drwx------  5 jpaglia jpaglia  4096 Jan 18 14:12 Downloads/
drwx------ 18 jpaglia jpaglia  4096 Jan 20 09:19 Dropbox/
drwxr-xr-x  5 jpaglia jpaglia  4096 Jan 18 13:42 kdenlive/
drwxr-xr-x  3 jpaglia jpaglia  4096 Dec 21 13:35 mnt/
drwx------  4 jpaglia jpaglia  4096 Jan  2 16:23 Movies/
drwx------  5 jpaglia jpaglia  4096 Dec 21 09:05 Music/
drwx------ 38 jpaglia jpaglia  4096 Jan  6 16:20 Pictures/
drwxr-xr-x  2 jpaglia jpaglia  4096 Dec 20 13:13 Templates/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root    root        4 Dec 20 14:12 tmp -> /tmp/
drwxr-xr-x  2 jpaglia jpaglia  4096 Dec 21 10:37 VBoxHDs/
drwxr-xr-x  2 jpaglia jpaglia  4096 Jan  3 15:01 Videos/
drwxr-xr-x  8 jpaglia jpaglia  4096 Jan 13 09:21 VirtualBox VMs/
[jpaglia@paglia-e6500 ~]

(fourth from the bottom)

[Hondo]

Well, the /temp folder located in /root is in my root partition of 48gb, with only 12% of it used. The /tmp folder in /home is in a 97gb partition and only 32% of it is being used right now.

So I guess that it will be fine for a while anyways.

[T6]

with 8 gbs of ram it is possible that the swap won't be used at all

the swap can stay in the 320 gbs hard disk i think

i would give the whole 64 gbs to / without a /home partition(/home as a folder on /)

the second hard disk for swap and form a second home folder

of course this is based on my personal use of my pc and only having one user with a determined ammount of files

[Hondo]

I was going to do that with the swap, but figured that I was along way from filling up the 48 gb with the root files.

I did install /home on the 320 gb HD.

[T6]

for most users 64 gbs is more than enough

including home 

[parnote]

for most users 64 gbs is more than enough

including home 

Truer words were never spoken, Bill Gates ... er, T6.

[Hondo]

for most users 64 gbs is more than enough

including home 

I guess I could have put home there as well, but then I wouldn't have put anything in it (videos, music, ect).

Just seemed easier to put /home in a remote location without capacity constraints.

[T6]

my hard disk is half full of that kind of stuff and a bunch of files about networks and similar files

i don't have 40 gbs of hard disk used and my / partition is 70 gbs in size

in your case i would do the same, put some stuff in one disc and other in the bigger one because that is the purpose of have a boot disc but this boot disc is big enough to hold alot, almost everything

since you use linux and don't play games, perhaps you should install windows in it and play some games to use that hard disk in a more useful way