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How bad is my partitioning? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I just got a new laptop and installed Linux on it. I mainly run OpenSUSE.

Getting full encryption on both was a bit of a challenge and I had no idea what I'm doing. Will having the swap partition in the middle break things? Did I really need so many partitions (Mint and OpenSUSE don't show up in eachother's boot menu)?

I'm probably not gonna change this layout (because reinstallation seems like a pain) unless the swap partition's position is a problem. I'm just curious how many mistakes I made.

EDIT: I'm not upgrading my drive capacity. I do not need it.

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[–] IsThisLoss@hexbear.net 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Swap on an ssd greatly accelerates the time before the drive fails. I would recommend removing it.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't believe this is true, but since I don't need hibernation I'm going with a swap file anyway.

[–] IsThisLoss@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Solid state drives have a finite number of write cycles. Using a portion of it for random access MASSSIVELY increases the amount of write cycles that are performed in regular operation.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Swap and RAM are not the same thing. Swap is not written to as carelessly as RAM.

[–] rjek@feddit.uk -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You have swap, which is pointless in this day and age, and will just burn a hole in the flash and delay the OOM killer doing its work. Look at ntfsresize to shrink that Windows partition down to the minimum. Then maybe image the partitions and obliterate them from the SSD. Use LVM instead to give yourself future flexibility. 1TB NVMe SSDs are so cheap these days they might as well put them in boxes of cereal.

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