Install Linux with Intel Optane 16GB

[slaphappy]

Are there any resources for installing Linux, specifically Fedora with Intel Optane. There is not much out there for what I've seen other than disabling Optane and setting to a SATA drive. This would seem to defeat the purpose of using Optane in Linux. There are a couple of tweaks on the intel site but no real prep or execution of install.

Thanks!

[mahyar]

well if it shows up like a regular drive you can just install linux on it

[Guest]

You could use it for caching with a filesystem that supports it.

Though this is not a special "Optane" specific thing (i.e. you would disable any Optane mode in the BIOS as that is Windows specific) . You could do it with any drive. You'd just so happen to be using the optane drive for it.

[igormp]

50 minutes ago, slaphappy said:

Are there any resources for installing Linux, specifically Fedora with Intel Optane. There is not much out there for what I've seen other than disabling Optane and setting to a SATA drive. This would seem to defeat the purpose of using Optane in Linux. There are a couple of tweaks on the intel site but no real prep or execution of install.

Thanks!

You can either use it as a regular disk, or use it as bcache drive.