shughard
October 3rd, 2009, 06:01 PM
I currently have 9.04 installed on my pc. My pc has a 32gb ssd drive and two 640gb hdd running raid0 with hardware raid.
I had 9.04 already installed on the raid0 when I bought the ssd drive. So I installed 9.04 ext4 on the ssd. Then I moved /tmp and /var to a tmpfs in ram. I set my raid0 to mount at boot use it for storage.
I am not happy with this current setup. From what I have been reading I could have done this better. So I am thinking about doing a clean install with a different partition scheme like this:
32gb ssd
partition 1 / 32gb ext4
1280gb raid0
partition 1 swap 10gb
partition 2 /tmp 10gb ext4
partition 3 /var 10gb ext4
partition 4 /home 1250gb ext4
I have several questions about this.
1) Do my partitions look right to maximize performance and minimize writes to the ssd?
2) Can the standard ubuntu install disk do what I am wanting to do?
3) Since my /home is mounted on the raid0 and my / mounted on the ssd will I be able to upgrade/do clean installs without losing this data and if so how do I get the new install to utilize the the /home partition on the raid0 drive as the /home partition in the new install?
Thanks
I had 9.04 already installed on the raid0 when I bought the ssd drive. So I installed 9.04 ext4 on the ssd. Then I moved /tmp and /var to a tmpfs in ram. I set my raid0 to mount at boot use it for storage.
I am not happy with this current setup. From what I have been reading I could have done this better. So I am thinking about doing a clean install with a different partition scheme like this:
32gb ssd
partition 1 / 32gb ext4
1280gb raid0
partition 1 swap 10gb
partition 2 /tmp 10gb ext4
partition 3 /var 10gb ext4
partition 4 /home 1250gb ext4
I have several questions about this.
1) Do my partitions look right to maximize performance and minimize writes to the ssd?
2) Can the standard ubuntu install disk do what I am wanting to do?
3) Since my /home is mounted on the raid0 and my / mounted on the ssd will I be able to upgrade/do clean installs without losing this data and if so how do I get the new install to utilize the the /home partition on the raid0 drive as the /home partition in the new install?
Thanks