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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 19/07/2013 08:56, Dale wrote: |
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>> luis jure wrote: |
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>>> hello list, |
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>>> i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i |
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>>> thought it |
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>>> would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the |
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>>> disk |
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>>> (my first SDD) and now i'm really confused... |
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>>> i intend to have only two partitions in the SSD: one for / and the other |
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>>> for /home. i have another HD for storage, where i'm going to put swap. |
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>>> apparently it's better to use a GPT partitioning. are there any catches i |
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>>> should take into account? what about grub, can i just install it later on |
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>>> the ssd? |
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>>> thanks for any comment or pointers, i found so many different "guides" |
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>>> saying different things that i'm really confused. |
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>>> best, |
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>>> lj |
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>> Do you really want to put /home on a SSD? |
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> Why not? |
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> /home is the most frequently-read directory on most systems, and SSD is |
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> ideal for that. |
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> If you are concerned about wear-levelling, /home is not the danger point |
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Interesting. I'm not sure I would want mine on a SSD even if it would |
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fit on one. The only part that might help would be my .kde and .mozilla |
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directory. |
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I'm going to get me one of these things one of these days tho. I almost |
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got one a while back that was on sale but they had sold out. :/ |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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