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How bad is my partitioning?
(lemmy.ml)
I just got a new laptop and installed Linux on it. I mainly run OpenSUSE.
Getting full encryption on both was a bit of a challenge and I had no idea what I'm doing. Will having the swap partition in the middle break things? Did I really need so many partitions (Mint and OpenSUSE don't show up in eachother's boot menu)?
I'm probably not gonna change this layout (because reinstallation seems like a pain) unless the swap partition's position is a problem. I'm just curious how many mistakes I made.
EDIT: I'm not upgrading my drive capacity. I do not need it.
Swap on an ssd greatly accelerates the time before the drive fails. I would recommend removing it.
I don't believe this is true, but since I don't need hibernation I'm going with a swap file anyway.
Solid state drives have a finite number of write cycles. Using a portion of it for random access MASSSIVELY increases the amount of write cycles that are performed in regular operation.
Swap and RAM are not the same thing. Swap is not written to as carelessly as RAM.