From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7EF9415ACFB for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:37:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C25F8E090F; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 608A1E08F6 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ponO3-0002ve-Bg for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:36:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:36:48 +0300 Message-ID: References: <3a8a143d-38f0-b7ea-4aa1-10c0b3a2a1e0@gmail.com> <50d5c2a3-76cc-39bc-290a-c6d3d9e0d7c4@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.10.0 Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <50d5c2a3-76cc-39bc-290a-c6d3d9e0d7c4@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0ed7450a-263f-4949-9914-856a5d6833be X-Archives-Hash: 264357e009cf8b6cb7d8796aef56ca8c On 18/04/2023 18:05, Dale wrote: > I compile on a spinning rust > drive and use -k to install the built packages on the live system.  That > should help minimize the writes. I just use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage (16GB, I'm on 32GB RAM.) When I keep binary packages around, those I have on my HDD, as well as the distfiles: DISTDIR="/mnt/Data/gentoo/distfiles" PKGDIR="/mnt/Data/gentoo/binpkgs" > Since I still need a spinning rust > drive for swap and such, I thought about putting /var on spinning rust. Nah. The data written there is absolutely minuscule. Firefox writes like 10 times more just while running it without even any web page loaded... And for actual browsing, it becomes more like 1000 times more (mostly the Firefox cache.) I wouldn't worry too much about it. I've been using my current SSD since 2020, and I'm at 7TBW right now (out of 200 the drive is rated for) and I dual boot Windows and install/uninstall large games on it quite often. So with an average of 3TBW per year, I'd need over 80 years to reach 200TBW :-P But I mentioned it in case your use case is different (like large video files or recording and whatnot.)