[nmglug] partitions on a solid state drive

[Andres Paglayan]

On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 09:52 -0700, Jason Schaefer wrote:

> 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.
>  

kinda the same,
the extra I find convenient is encrypting user's home,
I carry a lot of [...ahem] contracted, not free code,

>         
>         Thanks, regards, and happy new year for all.
>         
> 
> Its going to be a great year for free software!
> 
> 
> 
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