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Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10, openSUSE, Damn Small Linux, Fedora 14
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Need some help on a SSD and HDD install
Hey everyone! What I needed some opinions and help on is performing an Ubuntu 13.04 install on a laptop that I can use the best of both worlds with my 64GB SSD and 750GB hard drive and utilize them both.
Laptop Specs:
HP Envy dv7-7243nr
Core i5-3210M
8GB RAM
Intel HD 4000
64GB ADATA SSD
750GB Samsung 5400RPM HDD
My plan so far is to have /home and SWAP on the HDD, /tmp on a 1GB RAMdisk (if I can get that to work), and everything else on the SSD. Now this laptop is also a UEFI setup which I am new too so I need some help on what to to for a EFI partition on the SSD. This is a Ubuntu only box so no dual booting setup required. Just want to know if this particular setup will work well and just get some professional second opinions on this. I would start fiddling with this now but I am waiting on the SATA cord for the secondary HDD bay before I can try it out. Any help would be appreciated!
Distribution: Slackware 14.1 64-bit, Ubuntu 15.10, Fedora 17, Ubuntu 12 LTS and Ubuntu server 10.04
Posts: 173
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The _latest_ Ubuntu version supports UEFI secure boot, so in essence you won't have to worry about it if you get a newer GNU/Linux kernel with UEFI support. If you install / and swap on the SSD, you don't need to put /tmp in a RAM disk. It will reside on the SSD and the difference from ramdisk will be minor.
But do remember to activate SSD trim! (It's simply adding a couple of lines into the /etc/fstab file.) I know some newer distros does this automatically (OpenSUSE AFAIK), but just check it yourself.
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