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I have a PC with a

  • 250GB SSD &
  • 500GB SATA HD.

I will have Linux root (/) in the SSD disk after the installation.

I want to minimize ssd utilization as much as possible.
Therefore, I will put the /home and SWAP on the SATA disk.
Is there anything else that I should put on SATA hard disk to decrease the utilization of SSD?

Naveen
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/var and /tmp definitely go to HD from this perspective.

Ruslan Gerasimov
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I always smile on people that buys expensive SSD's and then configures system for anything else but performance. I hope you are informed that even if you put /home on your modern SSD, that drive will last for at least 10-12 years?
Common, be a man and put everything on your SSD! Mount your HDD as /archive for porn, and mount /tmp into RAM to boost performance even further. Get rid of swap partition as well! It's not needed if you have more than two gigs of RAM on Linux, and not going to use hibernate option (which is useless if your system boots in 10 seconds anyway, right?).

Andrejs Cainikovs
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  • What about putting /run into ram as well? I'm interested in your comment about removing the swap - I don't run SSD, but my swap seems completely unused as it is. I have 8 GB ram, but my boot time right now is about 45 seconds. – Charles Green Jun 02 '14 at 14:52
  • @CharlesGreen, /run is already mounted into RAM. This is a temporary file storage and has a special filesystem type called tmpfs, which is dynamically growing if needed, and by default can utilize up to 50% of computer RAM. It's usage can be observed via df -h. Btw, 45 seconds for Ubuntu is not bad (considering you are running a window manager, and booting from HDD). Have a look at average boot times for different Ubuntu versions and computer configurations, here. – Andrejs Cainikovs Jun 03 '14 at 06:46
  • Nah - I'm dual-booting rather than running the windows manager - it was much quicker in 13.10, and I've done something strange, but it may be that my partition does not align with physical sectors. I'm planning on eventually getting to a single boot and running all windows in VMs, but I'm tired and slow. – Charles Green Jun 03 '14 at 15:30
  • RE /run - I didn't see /run mounted in fstab, so being a n00b I suumed that it was physically on the disk somewhere. I had created a tmpfs for it, for a while, but saw no improvement in performance so reverted to default. Thanks for the response! – Charles Green Jun 03 '14 at 15:32