Subj : Re: Browser tabs To : McDoob From : boraxman Date : Fri Apr 01 2022 20:42:37 Mc> When I installed Linux Mint on my laptop, I used tmpfs for /tmp and Mc> /var/log. I didn't want them using half of the 16 GB of RAM in it, so I Mc> limited each to 1 or 2 GB, not exactly sure which. Mc> Mc> It is especially important to me, when running a 'hybrid' storage system Mc> (i.e. an SSD *and* an HDD in the same system), to make sure that certain Mc> parts of the filesystem are not mounted on the SSD. Obviously, a lot of Mc> reads and writes to the SSD isn't great, and mine's only 64 GB, while Mc> the HDD is a half TB. I *think* my fstab looks somewhat like: Mc> Well, you don't need to worry unless you actually dump 8G of data onto the drives. I have my tmpfs set at 6G, and I have 8G of ram. If I fill it, it can get tight, but I keep it over 4G because I sometimes want to temporarily create a DVD ISO image on it. I do this basically to save writing to the disk. Mc> /boot sda1 (SSD) Mc> / sda2 Mc> Mc> swap sdb1 (HDD) Mc> /var sdb2 Mc> /usr sdb3 Mc> /home sdb4 Mc> Mc> /tmp tmpfs (RAM) Mc> /var/log tmpfs Mc> Mc> Obviously, this isn't exactly what's in fstab on my laptop, but it's not Mc> currently on my lap, and I'm a bit too lazy to go look it up. I believe Mc> that's how the filesystem is set up though, or at least very similar. Mc> Mc> Also, I might have combined /usr and /var into one partition on the HDD. Mc> I have done that in the past, and I'm not sure if I did so on the Mc> laptop... Mc> I keep /var separate because it is updated frequently, whereas / is not updated as much. The idea was to avoid fragmentation on the root partition by separating constantly changing files. /home is separate, and I have multiple /storage partitions for well, storage of big data files. root, var and home are on SSDs, as well as a windows shared parition, whereas everything else is on hard disks. Putting /var on the SSD sped up things quite a bit, so it seemed worth it. Avoiding writes to SSD's doesn't seem that important. From what I've read, they can take a lot of writes, a LOT and its only really if you were running a really busy mail server, or something like that, where it would become a problem. So I've learned not to worry, but I keep /tmp on tmpfs. Why have /usr on a HDD? You'll get a great improvement moving that (and to a lesser degree /var) to the SSD. Mc> Man, it's so friggin' *great* to say stuff like that, and know that the Mc> person on the other end of the conversation isn't going glass-eyed with Mc> incomprehension! There's literally nobody in my real-life social circle Mc> that knows how to talk tech! Mc> Same here. I do have a friend or two that "know tech", but only relating to their job, which is niche application development for Windows, and to them, its just a job, a way to create an app to get paid. I do have one friend into this, who I inspired to covert to Linux many years ago, but alas, he moved overseas. We both liked those little hacks and configs that could improve your system, making the most of the tools. I have to say, I'm not really into "tech" per se. Smartphones, the metaverse, consumer technology like Alexa, Google Next, Connecting your car to your phone, these don't interest me in the slightest. When it comes to "gadgets", I'm one of the least interest people you'll meet. My interest is in computing tools, making machines do things at a more fundamental level, my own setups, builds. Cool ways to build tools to serve your own workflows, this I find most people aren't interested in, sadly. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64) * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101) .