file system reommendations for SSD...

Bill Duncan bduncan-m0FWaBiyNdxg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Fri Dec 20 04:09:47 UTC 2013


Mount with "noatime" option for sure.

Not sure about the prevailing wisdom on which fs to use now, I'd probably
just go with ext4.  Journalling is still probably a good idea and its
what I use.

Have fun!


On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:02:34PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> I'm about to install ARCH linux on my new laptop, which has a 240G SSD
> hard drive.  Sine the drive is not huge, I think I will use just a
> single partition for /, rather than a bunch for /var, /home, etc.
> 
> It's my first time with an SSD so I wondered whether folks had
> recommendations for a file system choice.  I understand, e.g., that
> GRUB doesn't support booting from f2fs, so I suppose that's out, but
> as far as I understand everything else shold wok fine.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
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