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that looks like a standard Ubuntu type installation.
- you could do better, by running the partitioner, manually first.
then run the installer, using the 'something else' option.
what will you do with the 103Gb spare space - at the end ?.
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Originally Posted by eco_bach
Hi
Can any hardware experts confirm whether I have set up my partitions correctly on a 1 TB SSD?
Absolutely!
Why wouldn't it be?
or how would anyone else know? You have not shared why it is partitioned out like that, nor what you are trying to do that requires separate partitions to a hard disk. So anyone else looking at that can only take a yes,no, maybe guess.
For all purposes and intent with the information given. It is absolutely correct.
I wouldn't put a swap partition on a SSD, unless I wanted it to die prematurely.
Of course, if this is a desktop then swap will probably never get used.
In which case, you don't need or want a swap partition.
Is sda3 your root partition (/)?
If so, why is it full?
Last edited by JeremyBoden; 01-03-2017 at 12:42 PM.
I wouldn't put a swap partition on a SSD, unless I wanted it to die prematurely.
Of course, if this is a desktop then swap will probably never get used.
In which case, you don't need or want a swap partition.
Is sda3 your root partition (/)?
If so, why is it full?
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Originally Posted by szboardstretcher
What now? Why do you think you don't need swap if it is a desktop? Is this a thing now?
If you think about it SWAP is becoming a thing of the past. Back in the day when system has <2G of ram is was needed and back then the recommendation was to have a swap as big as the RAM installed.
Today with every system having 8G+ there really isn't a need for swap. I haven't touched my swap since I don't know when.
Code:
~ # free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 16136920 391524 10822236 855428 4923160 14444776
Swap: 8191996 0 8191996
~ # uptime
14:02:24 up 21 days, 4:33, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.09
This is my desktop at work, used for monitoring the network, and my home systems Desktop 8G and Laptop 24G haven't touched their swap either.
So the question is do you really need swap? If you have enough memory then not really.
To the OP: if it does what you need it to do then it is fine.
I wouldn't put a swap partition on a SSD, unless I wanted it to die prematurely.
Of course, if this is a desktop then swap will probably never get used.
That is equivalent to saying, "Never put an SSD in a laptop that only has space for a single disk drive."
If you have enough swap activity to seriously affect the life of a modern SSD, your system would be unusably slow if that swap space were on anything except an SSD.
That is equivalent to saying, "Never put an SSD in a laptop that only has space for a single disk drive."
If you have enough swap activity to seriously affect the life of a modern SSD, your system would be unusably slow if that swap space were on anything except an SSD.
Alternatively, never buy a laptop that has so little storage that it just won't work without a decent swap partition.
that looks like a standard Ubuntu type installation.
- you could do better, by running the partitioner, manually first.
then run the installer, using the 'something else' option.
what will you do with the 103Gb spare space - at the end ?.
Read somewhere something about the importance of reserving a certain amount for unallocated for performance resaons
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What is the purpose of setting partition flags?
Many 'recipes' that I have been following such as
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