How would I best partitian a linux OS between a solid state drive and a regular hard drive?
I understand a SSD can only be written to a low number of times, so whatever is written to it initially shouldn’t change much at all. Which directories should I put on the SSD?
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There are many reliable sources that deny that the number of write to a SSD is that low before SSD failure. See the links below.
To answer your question about most used directories: /home and swap are by far the most written to directories. The other are written to when you make a configuration change or install new software.
Good luck
You’ll probably get the best answer for a technical question like this from a linux site such as http://www.linuxquestions.org/
Any decent SSD is made to work for many years. It’s true that you can make so many thousands of write to one cell of flash memory, wear leveling in the firmware moves data around so that under normal use a flash would take more than ten years to wear out.
I would put root folder on the SSD so your start up and applications are fast. And put /home on the hard drive because in a Desktop environment that is most storage is needed, and also make a few GB partition for /tmp, because there is many small file writes there that can slow down a SSD.