partitioning scheme

[prothales]

I'm installing the new ubuntu 15.04, I have a 40 GB ssd and a 1TB hdd, I have 8GB ram,

How much swap shoulld i have and what partitionings should i do. I also want to have space to put most played games on ssd.

[manikyath]

not sure how you'll put multiple games along with your OS on a 40GB SSD...

 

as for swap, somewhere between 8 and 16GB.

[prothales]

not sure how you'll put multiple games along with your OS on a 40GB SSD...

 

as for swap, somewhere between 8 and 16GB.

Just 2 games that take up 10GB together

[manikyath]

Just 2 games that take up 10GB

do you *need* your OS to be on the SSD, or is the SSD mostly to have the games load faster?

[ADZ_123_!"£]

do you *need* your OS to be on the SSD, or is the SSD mostly to have the games load faster?

It's not worth having a ssd and then not putting your OS on it.

[prothales]

It's not worth having a ssd and then not putting your OS on it.

I know the os should have all the space it needs whit 20GB

[manikyath]

It's not worth having a ssd and then not putting your OS on it.

thats not true, especially in the linux world, because linux is quite snappy as is. (coming from a guy that locks up explorer.exe daily when windows isnt on an SSD)

 

my catch with the 40GB, is that its quite a close call when wanting to partition things seperately.

[ADZ_123_!"£]

I know the os should have all the space it needs whit 20GB

Well it would be cutting it a bit close but it should work.

[manikyath]

I know the os should have all the space it needs whit 20GB

thats in theory, you never know what future updates will bring, and how much files you'll put on it.

 

i guess you could just put the entire 40GB into root, and have 16GB swap on the HDD, and use the rest as storage.

 

that seems the safest bet to me.

[prothales]

thats not true, especially in the linux world, because linux is quite snappy as is. (coming from a guy that locks up explorer.exe daily when windows isnt on an SSD)

 

my catch with the 40GB, is that its quite a close call when wanting to partition things seperately.

I managed whit 10 GB on ubuntu 10 for a very long while without having any trouble

[ADZ_123_!"£]

thats not true, especially in the linux world, because linux is quite snappy as is. (coming from a guy that locks up explorer.exe daily when windows isnt on an SSD)

 

my catch with the 40GB, is that its quite a close call when wanting to partition things seperately.

What version of linux where you using to get quite quick boots from?

[prothales]

thats in theory, you never know what future updates will bring, and how much files you'll put on it.

 

i guess you could just put the entire 40GB into root, and have 16GB swap on the HDD, and use the rest as storage.

 

that seems the safest bet to me.

It probably is then.

[manikyath]

What version of linux where you using to get quite quick boots from?

anything that isnt bloated beyond belief (like stock ubuntu)

linux mint 16 boots about as quickly off a HDD as windows 8 does off an SSD

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

I'm installing the new ubuntu 15.04, I have a 40 GB ssd and a 1TB hdd, I have 8GB ram,

How much swap shoulld i have and what partitionings should i do. I also want to have space to put most played games on ssd.

with that configuration, I'd do something like 8-16 GB of swap on the HDD, a 8gb "/" partition on the SSD with the rest of the ssd partitioned as "/home". make sure your bootloader installation is on the SSD and that the large partition on the second drive is formatted with some mount point that will be your mass storage.

[manikyath]

It probably is then.

should mention, put the swap on the fast side of the hard drive. (if i recall correctly, the front of the hard drive is the fastest.)

[ADZ_123_!"£]

anything that isnt bloated beyond belief (like stock ubuntu)

linux mint 16 boots about as quickly off a HDD as windows 8 does off an SSD

So the fact that I've got linux mint 17 booting off a ssd in about 5 seconds really isn't that fast is it.

[manikyath]

So the fact that I've got linux mint 17 booting off a ssd in about 5 seconds really isn't that fast is it.

the question is, do we *need* it to boot within 5 seconds, over having fast storage for games?

 

--if there ends up not being space for both--

[ADZ_123_!"£]

the question is, do we *need* it to boot within 5 seconds, over having fast storage for games?

 

--if there ends up not being space for both--

If I was the op then I would probably get the games on an ssd and then get another ssd as a boot drive at the first possible opportunity.  

[manikyath]

If I was the op then I would probably get the games on an ssd and then get another ssd as a boot drive at the first possible opportunity.  

on the topic of boot speeds, i have an unoptimized linux mint 16 install that reboots from desktop to desktop in 36 seconds. (unoptimized as in clean install without any drivers, running in software display mode)

[ADZ_123_!"£]

on the topic of boot speeds, i have an unoptimized linux mint 16 install that reboots from desktop to desktop in 36 seconds. (unoptimized as in clean install without any drivers, running in software display mode)

Is this on a hdd or a ssd?

[manikyath]

Is this on a hdd or a ssd?

thats on a 7200rpm HDD

[ADZ_123_!"£]

thats on a 7200rpm HDD

Well you really don't need a ssd for linux then, I might in stall mint on my dads pc as it takes his atleast 45 secs to boot up (on a 5 year old hdd).

[manikyath]

Well you really don't need a ssd for linux then, I might in stall mint on my dads pc as it takes his atleast 45 secs to boot up (on a 5 year old hdd).

its not really the hard drive that decides linux boot time, its more so the hardware around it.

 

AND offcourse the bloatedness of your install.

 

i had an arch linux install a while back that could reboot within the time of resetting putty.

do take in mind that install was less RAM usage than ubuntu server.

[ADZ_123_!"£]

its not really the hard drive that decides linux boot time, its more so the hardware around it.

 

AND offcourse the bloatedness of your install.

 

i had an arch linux install a while back that could reboot within the time of resetting putty.

do take in mind that install was less RAM usage than ubuntu server.

Well it does ave a atom and 2gb DDR2 ram so, well yeh...

[manikyath]

Well it does ave a atom and 2gb DDR2 ram so, well yeh...

an atom is probably still better than the athlon 64 i used to mess with, and the baby sweet jesus full gigabyte of DDR1 that only slightly smelled like burn.