how to best use 2 HD 256 ssd / normal 1TB

drudox · 05-07-2018, 03:55 PM

Hi everybody , I have a new laptop with 2 HD
1) SSD 256 gb
2) SATA normal 1TB

I would know what is the best way to use this 2 HD ,,, I mean in which create the partition for / , in which the home and /media/dati (saved data backup .. long terms)
could you give me some advice ?
thanks in advance

syg00 · 05-07-2018, 07:06 PM

There is rarely a "best way" for anything - and requirements may change over time.
You've answered your own query really. Put everything you want fast response time on the SSD, everything else on the spinning disk. So all the normal setup (root, /home, swap) on the SSD, archive data on disk. Simple.

Some will advise against swap, but in normal running you probably won't use it, and in a wake-up from hibernation, you won't want to be kept waiting. What did you pay the money for SSD for ? - fast response.

jefro · 05-07-2018, 07:17 PM

Guess it may depend on programs used. Do they need fast access? Do you need swap even?

Backup would tend to be on mechanical side.

BW-userx · 05-07-2018, 08:19 PM

I got my 256GB sdd as sda windows and / and /home and /projects and my secondary,now it's a 2TB, for data mounted in /media so it automatically shows up in my file manager when I open it.
my swap is a 16GB SD Card just cuz. cuz my swap never gets used nor my SD Card slot. So it kind of goes together.

fstab set up

Code:

$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/mmcblk0p1   swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/sda5        /                ext4        defaults         1   1

/dev/sda6        /home            ext4        defaults         1   2

/dev/sda7 /media/projects         ext4        defaults         0   0

#2TB internal HDD
/dev/sdb1        /media/data      ext4        defaults         1   2
/dev/sdb2       /media/ntfs       ntfs-3g     defaults	       1   2

#/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,owner,ro,comment=x-gvfs-show 0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0

tmpfs            /dev/shm         tmpfs       defaults         0   0

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=3G  0 0

AwesomeMachine · 05-08-2018, 01:01 AM

Put the system and application programs on the ssd, put /home and storage on the hdd. I limit the size of home just so I have to clear it out every so often, because it fills up. Otherwise you could make the entire hdd /home.

BW-userx · 05-08-2018, 09:13 AM

I leave mine on sdd, only because it compiles source faster. but hey that's just me. having a 1TB /home you shouldn't need a garage to store all of your stuff. The possibilities are almost endless. You could even slice up your sdd into 20GB sections and add other OS'es.

_roman_ · 05-08-2018, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drudox

Hi everybody , I have a new laptop with 2 HD
1) SSD 256 gb
2) SATA normal 1TB

I would know what is the best way to use this 2 HD ,,, I mean in which create the partition for / , in which the home and /media/dati (saved data backup .. long terms)
could you give me some advice ?
thanks in advance

i have my asus g75vw notebook with 120GB SSD + 1TB HDD.

I only use 60gB of 120GB SSD for everything. the distfiles and some other junk are below 80GB on the 1TB HDD.

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Pay attention to

no swap!
everything on the ssd
downloads for software, e.g. gentoo distfiles on the HDD (package manager files)
junk you can loose, but you are unwilling to delete => hdd

downloads in tmpfs
software building in tmpfs
certain tempfiles in tmpfs

regular full disk backups.
regular cleaning of files

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I am quite sure my linux needs less than 20GB. 40gB of userdate which accumulated over the years