file system reommendations for SSD...

[William Park]

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.

SSD is no different from HD.  GRUB will be booting off /boot, so it
needs to be something GRUB can deal with.  But, the rest can be
anything.  I'd recommend ext4 with 'discard' option for TRIM.
-- 
William
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