[mdlug] MSI Wind SSD Upgrade Question

[Carl T. Miller]

I always add the option noatime.  This prevents a follow-up
write after every time a file is read.  You can also consider
stopping the syslog daemon if it's a workstation and you can
live without the logs.

c


Brandon wrote:
> That was the base install, back when Dell was first offering Ubuntu as a
> ground breaking alternative to Windows. Rest assured, these machines have
> had some variant of Linux on them for years now: Debian at the moment but
> also Mint/Xandros/Ubuntu in the past. I don't have experience with SSDs
> though; it looks like as long as I install as Ext4 I can enable TRIM in
> /etc/fstab:
>
> "To enable TRIM support then add the *“discard” *mount option to
> */etc/fstab*: change the default *“errors=remount-ro”* into
> *“errors=remount-ro,discard”*. Reboot and you’re done."
> http://visei.com/2011/08/how-to-enable-trim-for-ssds-in-debian-6-0-squeeze/
>
> Is there anything else I'd need to do?
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:14 PM, A. Zimmer <andrew.zimmer at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:51:03 -0500
>> Brandon <bfotiu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I have two MSI Wind U100 Netbooks that I'm considering upgrading with
>> SSD
>> > ...
>> > Operating System Windows XP Home Edition SP3 ...
>> >
>>
>> What does this have to do with Linux?
>>
>> Anyway, to effectively utilize an SSD the TRIM command is recommended
>> to communicate information about empty pages to the SSD (a form of
>> garbage collection).
>>
>> Linux supports TRIM on the Ext4 and Btrfs file systems and has done
>> so for a considerable time period.
>>
>> Microsh*t Windows XP does not support TRIM, and later Microsh*t OS's
>> only support TRIM in a limited capacity.
>>
>> So this thread, by being anti-Microsh*t, can be considered pro-Linux.
>>
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