Salix Rapoison / Win 7 Multiboot + SSD drive? Alignment?

[rrttdd]

Hi,

Now, as I've upgraded my old laptop with a SSD drive, I'd like to re-install Salix Ratpoison on that machine as "secondary" OS with boot menu.


According to the Win 7 Control Panel, the SSD (256 GB) is partitioned as follows:

-100 MB primary active system system reserved partition (NTFS)
-175,9 GB boot / start / swap = drive C: (NTFS)
-62,47 GB unused space

I'd like to use 32 GB of the remaining unused SSD space for a Salix Ratpoison installation.

Are there any issues to cope with?

A huge concern is the alignment of the partitions. Does Salix leave the position of the existing windows partitions untouched or will it move them around on the volume?

A shifted alignment usually causes performance problems with SSDs...

How does Salix Ratpoison deal with SSDs? According to some research in the web, the brtfs file system is better suited for SSD drives than ext4, but it seems to be not available for Salix 13.37? Are at least ext4 partitions aligned correctly on SSDs?

[mimosa]

If your existing partition scheme is correctly aligned, you shouldn't have any problems. I recommend xfs (which is the standard Salix filesystem from 14.0).

Please see this wiki entry:

http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/H ... une_an_SSD

If you examine the disk with gparted, you should see an item stating the alignment. The default is the same as recommended in the wiki. To be sure, you could create the Salix partition using Gparted, before running the installer, rather than using the installer's tools. In that case, you would obviously need to run gparted from a livecd or similar.