file system reommendations for SSD...

[Jamon Camisso]

On 19/12/13 11:02 PM, 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.

I had huge performance issues with deletes using BTRFS on a LUKS
encrypted partition. I'd just go with ext4 and you won't have to think
about it again.

I'd suggest encrypting everything except /boot as well since it's a
laptop. You won't notice any slow downs. With enough RAM you can use
tmpfs on /tmp as well.

If you go this route, don't forget to encrypt your swap too. It's not
hard, on my Debian laptop I just get two prompts when starting up, one
for root and one for swap.

Cheers, Jamon

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