I was lucky enough to be given a 40 GB SSD as a Christmas gift; and, given the inherent speed of these drives, decided it would be best used as the /
partition; but then it occurred to me that this might not be enough space.
The plan I have in mind is:
40GB SSD - /
1TB HDD - /home
I'm not quite sure about where to put swap, but I'm toying with the idea of keeping that in RAM (if it's feasible), or on the HDD (if RAM isn't feasible).
I guess my question is three-fold:
- Is a 40GB SSD practical for use as
/
? - If it's not practical, is Ubuntu (it'll be 10.10) able to use the extra space on the HDD?
- ...as an after-thought: is it possible to separate
/
out at all? So that/etc/
and/var
(for example) are on different drives? (Since/var/www/
is, to me, more closely related to the contents of/home
than anything else).