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What in /home would benefit from being on an SSD?

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In Is a 40GB SSD practical to use for ' / ' Jorge describes how he symlinks directories in his /home that would benefit from being on an SSD. The directories he names are

~/.cache

~/.config

~/.gconf

I know how to make the symlinks. What I am asking for is if this is a good list of directories in /home that benefits from being on an SSD? I figure that good items on such a list are files that are read often. The reason for asking this is that I cannot fit all of /home on the SSD but I still want to get as much performance out of the SSD as possible.

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answered 2 Years ago tubequ · Accepted Answer

Here's a list of other things that might be useful (I've made this a wiki post so anyone can add to it):

.cache - temporty cache files for browsers and other programs.

.config - config files for programs

.gconfd abd .gconf - GNOME configuration files

.gegl-0.0 – file for GIMP

.gimp-2.6 – files for GIMP

.gnome2 – used by some GNOME 2 applications

.gvfs – data folder for the GNOME virtual filesystem

.local – user specific data. You will lose the Nautilus Trash functionality if this directory is put on a different partition.

.macromedia – files for flash

.mozilla – where all your Mozilla Firefox cache is

.thumbnails – thumbnails for pictures, videos, etc (used by Nautilus)

.thunderbird – where all your Mozilla Thunderbird cache is