-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/2019 18.30, Dave Howorth wrote:
I've just bought my first SSD disks (Crucial MX500). I plan to install one on my desktop, replacing the DVD player which I'll move to USB, and use one with an RPi I have.
With the one on my desktop I plan to install 15.1, probably as a fresh install, and then make some links to connect it to my existing data on the rotating rust. That way I'll still hopefully be able to boot the existing 15.0 off the rust if necessary.
Does that sound like a reasonable plan?
Yes.
I'm currently stuck at the first step (well actually the second, I've managed to put one of the SSD into a USB enclosure and connect to it) - namely how should I format it? My 15.0 system has BtrFS with lots of subvolumes, which is another reason to do a new install. Are there any reasons to prefer particular filesystems on SSDs, like with SD cards, or do I just treat it the same as HDD? What do people use?
I use ext4/xfs, perhaps reiserfs on my ssd disks, just the same as others. However, btrfs has optimizations for ssd.
A final question. Crucial have a Windows-only program for updating the firmware on the drive. Anybody know the Linux way?
Some brands ship with software for the ssd. One says it can assign unpartioned space to use a pool of sectors for recycling or whatever it is called. I have not used it. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXelJQQAKCRC1MxgcbY1H 1a/gAKCQRKcoPHoONsMrBW+EtG9rN9YdOQCdEa0131EXwAZ0GIGSg/2ds+mHxvo= =cTqk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org