**deutrino** @deutrino@mstdn.io · 19 mar. 2018, 17:27

**deutrino** @deutrino@mstdn.io · 19 mar. 2018, 17:27

deutrino @deutrino@mstdn.io

Next #Linux question - I'm gonna be running a system with a 120GB SSD which isn't nearly enough space, and right-sizing partitions sucks. Everything else will be on spinning drives. I just want my apps and general usage (= mostly very heavy browser usage) to be fast. Should I, um, mount it somewhere and symlink /usr and /home and /opt in so I don't have to worry about partition size? I never had to deal with this crap when I had money.

**👉@meena@glitch.social** @meena · 2018-03-19T18:19:41Z

👉@meena@glitch.social @meena

@deutrino how is 120G not enough?

19 mar. 2018, 18:19 · Twidere for Android · 0 · 0

**deutrino** @deutrino@mstdn.io · 19 mar. 2018, 18:30

**deutrino** @deutrino@mstdn.io · 19 mar. 2018, 18:30

@meena @tek I have a few hundred gigs of data I keep around which does not need to be on a fast disk, and I tend to do lowkey vidya editing which takes gobs of space. I want apps and some of the stuff in /home (namely browser profiles and the like) on ssd, but don't want stuff like /var on ssd. So I think what I want is /opt, /usr, and /home on ssd and everything else on spinning disk(s). Ugh. Actually what I want is a hybrid ssd/magnetic drive so I can ignore this.

**Tek 🌎** @tek@freeradical.zone · 19 mar. 2018, 20:07

**Tek 🌎** @tek@freeradical.zone · 19 mar. 2018, 20:07

@deutrino @meena Gotcha. Could you use btrfs, where you set up a storage pool that filesystems can automatically grow into (and shrink out of)? Then you could have a "fast" pool and a "slow" pool, but not have to worry about getting the exact right size for everything in advance.

**deutrino** @deutrino@mstdn.io · 19 mar. 2018, 20:36

**deutrino** @deutrino@mstdn.io · 19 mar. 2018, 20:36

@tek hmm maybe? Not sure how many disks will end up on this machine. But I didn't realize btrfs could do that. I've used it, but only on SD cards in pi-like systems where it supposedly thrashes the flash less IIRC.
@meena

**👉@meena@glitch.social** @meena · 19 mar. 2018, 20:37

**👉@meena@glitch.social** @meena · 19 mar. 2018, 20:37

@deutrino @tek wouldn't it be awesome if linux had a filesystem…

**Tek 🌎** @tek@freeradical.zone · 20 mar. 2018, 00:31

**Tek 🌎** @tek@freeradical.zone · 20 mar. 2018, 00:31

@deutrino @meena Another option: one big root, one big /mnt/slow, and /var is a symlink to /mnt/slow/var. Repeat with others as needed. Then you’re also free from mispartitioning.

**deutrino** @deutrino@mstdn.io · 20 mar. 2018, 01:03

**deutrino** @deutrino@mstdn.io · 20 mar. 2018, 01:03

@tek or bind mounts

**Tek 🌎** @tek@freeradical.zone · 20 mar. 2018, 02:58

**Tek 🌎** @tek@freeradical.zone · 20 mar. 2018, 02:58

@deutrino That works!