30GB SSD for Arch + Gnome 3?

craptakular · 10 Jun 2011 at 20:02

IS 30GB enough for a gnome install or am I going to constantly be worrying about space?

IS SSD ok on linux? or will it need buggering with?

tntcoder · 10 Jun 2011 at 20:15

Hmm depends on what you wanna do with it. My fairly complete Arch gnome 3 desktop/multimedia box has 18gb on / excluding my home directory. So yep it's fine, but might give you problems if you wanna store much on it obviously.

I'm using SSD to without issues, to get the best performance you need to mess around with partition alignment a bit, but it's all well documented on the arch wiki

craptakular · 10 Jun 2011 at 20:22

hhmmm I have all music and video on my arch server so don't need a lot of space...

it's only £45 for a ssd as well. Could get a 60GB Vertex 2E for £80 though.

oh while you're here, I have a 5870, is it a no go on gnome 3 on the open source driver?

Hairybudda · 10 Jun 2011 at 20:29

My / partition is 4GB, it's totally doable, I doubt gnome3 can be that large

wiiija · 10 Jun 2011 at 20:36

Yep easily doable, though I'm not Arch, my ubuntu install with everything I need is only 2.4gb!

SMN · 11 Jun 2011 at 21:54

Oxy said:
oh while you're here, I have a 5870, is it a no go on gnome 3 on the open source driver?

Not sure now, but I remember when I last had an ATI card 3 years ago the ATI driver support for *nix was dreadful. Things might have changed since!

zinc · 12 Jun 2011 at 04:25

It is definitely possible. I have a SSD in my media server machine that is only 30GB. I partitioned it with:

/ - 10GB
home - 20GB

Then put the swap on another HDD where I store all my large media.

I've had this rig running for about two years and / has 3.2GB free and home has 10GB although all I do is use the browser, download torrents with it and stream media to other machines.