[nmglug] partitions on a solid state drive

[Jason Schaefer]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Andres Paglayan <andres at paglayan.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> Instead of buying a new laptop this year,
> I decided to get a solid state HD upgrade for it.
> It's an Intel 80G, and will have Ubuntu 9.10 on it.
>
> Do the same partition considerations apply to a ram disk,
> as they do to a magnetic plate one?
>

Im not aware of any difference


>
> Does it matter having different partitions, or makes no sense?
>

for personal computers and private servers I stopped partitioning for /var
/tmp /home etc, at all. I just do one / and a swap. Of course people will
point out LVM and disagree. I say, why bother.


>
> Thanks, regards, and happy new year for all.
>

Its going to be a great year for free software!
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