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Ubuntu 12.10 and Prolong SSD life

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I will be installing Ubuntu 12.10 on a SSD as a dual boot with Windows 7. I also have a HDD that will be used as a data drive.

I was thinking of having:

/ on SSD

/home on HDD

swap on HDD

Is there any other folders that I could move to it own partition? How much space would I need for the different partitions?

Is there any other tips anyone can give for prolonging the life of the SSD?

Thanks
Sam

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answered 2 Years ago imberst · Accepted Answer

To prolong SSD life

Enable TRIM

Back up fstab first in case something wrong happen.

# cp /etc/fstab ~/fstab.bk

Edit fstab file

# nano /etc/fstab

Disable hibernation

# nano /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.upower.policy

Look for

<allow_active>yes</allow_active>

Change from “yes” to “no”, there are two, one for hibernation, and another one for suspend. If you have to disable them both, make sure to replace them both from yes to no.

<allow_active>no</allow_active>

Tmpfs

Edit fstab file

# nano /etc/fstab

Add the line to the end of fstab file

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0

If logs aren’t important for you (laptop or desktop), you can also mount /var/log to tmpfs. Add the line to the end of fstab file

tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=0755 0 0