[SOLVED] Reducing writes on Lubuntu installed on SSDs using RAMdisks, am I doing it right?

maples · 03-17-2014, 09:09 PM

Hi!

I installed Lubuntu on a used netbook that I recently got. I would like to preserve the writes to the SSDs so I can (hopefuly

) get more mileage out of them. I did some Googling on it, and I think I have it set up correctly with all of the temporary directories mounted as RAMdisks by edint /etc/fstab. Is this the proper way to do it? Are there any directories that I'm missing?

Here is my fstab:

Code:

anthony@Anthony-Eee:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#

# <file system> <mount point>	<type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=d5d56d98-2343-48e5-8122-cddeb0b62c97 /               ext2    errors=remount-ro 0       1

# /home was on /dev/sdb2 during installation
UUID=d1a6abc4-aa5d-46e6-83d0-c2878fbf13bd /home           ext2    defaults        0       2

# /usr was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=c3923134-ccc4-448c-9cd5-6174347c58b9 /usr            ext2    defaults        0       2


#I added this
#It makes a ramdrive for temporary dirs
tmpfs		/tmp		tmpfs	rw,size=128M	0	0
tmpfs		/var/spool	tmpfs	rw,size=128M	0	0
tmpfs		/var/tmp	tmpfs	rw,size=128M	0	0
tmpfs		/var/log	tmpfs	rw,size=128M	0	0
tmpfs		/home/anthony/temp tmpfs	rw,size=512M	0	0

Thanks!

pan64 · 03-18-2014, 08:35 AM

/var/lock and /var/run are missing
/var/log should not be moved to tmpfs, you will loose all your logfiles during a reboot, that may cause problems.

maples · 03-18-2014, 02:36 PM

Thanks for the response!

I'll add those two, then remove /var/log

Thanks again!

pan64 · 03-19-2014, 01:13 AM

glad to help you.
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