Salix Rapoison / Win 7 Multiboot + SSD drive? Alignment?
Posted: 13. Jul 2013, 12:23
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?
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?