[SOLVED] New ssd

[cowboy0629]

Hi everyone...

I just got a ssd drive.. Corsair LE 240gig... TRIM=BLOCK 8


I was just wondering if there is anything I should know about installing Gentoo to a SSD drive.. I have read some stuff on it and being a newbie to Linux and Gentoo .. I am lost as to all this stuff....

question are like this ..

Should I build a complete new Gentoo system
can I copy my old system to the drive..
is my ssd not going to last or is this a complete waste of time...
Is there a good walk-thru for installing Gentoo to a drive
I will probably keep my mechanical drive in the system as well
I want to make the ssd the boot drive.. but mechanical drive is /sda and the ssd is /sdb
can I build the system in this configuration then change the sata cables around to make ssd sda and the mechanical sdb


thanks in advance
Mike Dennison

[NeddySeagoon]

cowboy0629,

Your SSD will be fine. You can do all of the things you suggest.

If you have the RAM and are worried about writes, put /var/tmp/portage into tmpfs.
4G of installed RAM will give you a 2G tmpfs which is adequate for most packages if you only build them one at a time.
Things like firefox and libreoffice won't fit but you can move PORTAGE_TMPDIR on a per package basis for those packages.
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Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[nictki]

and
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD#XDG_cache
is quite useful I think
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