Aw: Re: [opensuse-factory] Partition proposal on new TW installation

Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. März 2017 um 22:05 Uhr Von: "Larry Finger" An: "Axel Braun" , oS-fctry Betreff: Re: [opensuse-factory] Partition proposal on new TW installation

On 03/22/2017 03:23 PM, Axel Braun wrote:

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Hello,

I did an installation of current TW on a new HD. Laptop is having 8GB RAM and a 960 GB SSD (Yes, got me a new one - Kingston this time, after Samsung Evo died 1 month after the 3yr warranty period - and Samsung proofed that they are not consumer oriented. But thats a different story...)

Partition proposal was: 2GB - Swap 40GB - btrfs root 840GB - XFS home

2GB swap with 8GB RAM does not sound healthy for hibernation - should the proposal not be at least the RAM size?

As the owner of a 1024 GB Samsung EDO 850, your report is not heartening!

On the ThinkPad-Linux mailing list, a day before, a user reported the same problem with the same disk. You may be able to mount it one more time, but afterwards you cant get anything out of a broken SSD....

Having swap be 1/4 of RAM size does seem a bit small. Memory is compressed when hibernating, thus the amount of disk space used will depend on your load, but 1/2 of RAM sounds safer.

On your system, did you mount your partitions with the noatime option? That reduces the number of disk writes. I also made the swappiness value be low.

I did it on the old disk with EXT4 - for XFS and btrfs I have not checked if this option still exists. To what did you set the swappiness? Cheers Axel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org