I'd appreciate any guidance on how I should partition a new intel 310
soda creek SSD drive ... I've googles a bit there are suggestions about
paritioning and using ext4 ..

Appreciate any wisdom the community can offer !

Thanks!

gene
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Hi:
I'm not sure how to create the partitions on your SSD drive, but I know that you should not install partitions as /var where the writing/reading task is high because it reduces the lifetime of your SSD device.

Good luck:Aradnix


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On 06/08/2011 09:06 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> I'd appreciate any guidance on how I should partition a new intel 310
> soda creek SSD drive ... I've googles a bit there are suggestions about
> paritioning and using ext4 ..

You may use ext4 or btrfs as they both support TRIM. Be sure to add the
"discard" mount option to your /etc/fstab as it will not be automatic
because there is fear by some kernel developers that some drives have
bad TRIM performance. I have not seen this on consumer drives though and
you will not have a problem with your brand new SSD.

There is one catch. LUKS encrypted partitions do not support TRIM; even
if they are ext4 or btrfs underneath. I would also say LVM and RAID do
not support TRIM either, but as of 2.6.37, they both do.
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09.06.2011, 11:06, "Genes MailLists" <lists@sapience.com>:
> *I'd appreciate any guidance on how I should partition a new intel 310
> soda creek SSD drive ... I've googles a bit there are suggestions about
> paritioning and using ext4 ..
>
> *Appreciate any wisdom the community can offer !
>
> *Thanks!
>
> gene

I would do it like this:

[_____15 GB ext4 for /_____] [_______________the rest of space, ext4 for /home_______________]

Then, after the installation, I'd add "discard", "noatime" and "nodiratime" options for / and /home:

UUID=[some-long-number] / ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 1 2
UUID=[some-long-number] /home ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 1 1

Noatime and nodiratime tell the system not to update last access time for files and folders correspondingly.

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On 06/09/2011 12:37 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 06/08/2011 09:06 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>> I'd appreciate any guidance on how I should partition a new intel 310
>> soda creek SSD drive ... I've googles a bit there are suggestions about
>> paritioning and using ext4 ..
>
> You may use ext4 or btrfs as they both support TRIM. Be sure to add the
> "discard" mount option to your /etc/fstab as it will not be automatic
> because there is fear by some kernel developers that some drives have
> bad TRIM performance. I have not seen this on consumer drives though and
> you will not have a problem with your brand new SSD.
>
> There is one catch. LUKS encrypted partitions do not support TRIM; even
> if they are ext4 or btrfs underneath. I would also say LVM and RAID do
> not support TRIM either, but as of 2.6.37, they both do.

Thats very helpful thanks so much

.. while I'll be putting F14 on this - I'll be using newer kernels -
2.6.39 and 3.0 once the dust settles a bit more.

I used gparted to partition it - and set alignment to cylinder tho I
wasn't sure if that was preferable to MiB alignment - any thoughts on
alignment ?




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On 06/09/2011 04:32 AM, Misha Shnurapet wrote:
> I would do it like this:
>
> [_____15 GB ext4 for /_____] [_______________the rest of space, ext4 for /home_______________]
>
> Then, after the installation, I'd add "discard", "noatime" and "nodiratime" options for / and /home:
>
> UUID=[some-long-number] / ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 1 2
> UUID=[some-long-number] /home ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 1 1
>
> Noatime and nodiratime tell the system not to update last access time for files and folders correspondingly.


This drive is actually mSata - which is to say it has a mini-pci
format and is used in addition to the normal hard drive - being small it
is much cheaper than replacing the entire hard drive - but its big
enough for root and opt and some /home for sure but not all.

However, since I alsways enccyrpt /home and Michael pointed out that
TRIM wont work for LUKS maybe its best I dont use it for /home.

My normal set up is encypted /home, /opt and swap.

Then I bind mount /tmp and /var/tmp over /opt/tmp /opt/var/tmp so that
they are both encrypted too - I find it convenient not to encrypt root
for when things go bad and recovering can be simplified.


Thanks for your suggestions .. I'll def set the atime flags.

gene
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Genes MailLists wrote:

> On 06/09/2011 12:37 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>> On 06/08/2011 09:06 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>>> I'd appreciate any guidance on how I should partition a new intel 310
>>> soda creek SSD drive ... I've googles a bit there are suggestions about
>>> paritioning and using ext4 ..
>>
>> You may use ext4 or btrfs as they both support TRIM. Be sure to add the
>> "discard" mount option to your /etc/fstab as it will not be automatic
>> because there is fear by some kernel developers that some drives have
>> bad TRIM performance. I have not seen this on consumer drives though and
>> you will not have a problem with your brand new SSD.
>>
>> There is one catch. LUKS encrypted partitions do not support TRIM; even
>> if they are ext4 or btrfs underneath. I would also say LVM and RAID do
>> not support TRIM either, but as of 2.6.37, they both do.
>
> Thats very helpful thanks so much
>
> .. while I'll be putting F14 on this - I'll be using newer kernels -
> 2.6.39 and 3.0 once the dust settles a bit more.
>
> I used gparted to partition it - and set alignment to cylinder tho I
> wasn't sure if that was preferable to MiB alignment - any thoughts on
> alignment ?
>
>
>
>

Maybe add barrier=0 if this is a laptop

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On 06/09/2011 09:22 AM, Neal Becker wrote:

>>
>
> Maybe add barrier=0 if this is a laptop
>

Excellent - thank you ... and yes its a laptop - it fits in the same
slot as a broadband card.

thank you.
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