In article <20120413155934.fcdaa9db.theatre at melvilletheatre.com>, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > I just ordered a new machine that's destined to become a Centos 6 application > server for a publishing company, and decided to get one with a 40GB SSD as well > as a standard hard drive. > > I'm thinking that I can put most of the operating system on that drive and have > the home directories and whatnot on the regular hard drive. Are there any > pitfalls lying in wait for an unwary person like me when setting this thing up? > > Further, I suspect that if that thing rattles along like I think it should I'll > probably want to add a SSD to my own desktop machine here. Since this computer > is already set up with the default Centos 6 partitioning system on a single hard > drive (/boot, /home and /) is there an easy way to transfer the OS to the SSD or > would I be better off reformatting this thing and starting over from scratch if > I want to have a SSD for my boot and OS drive? I haven't tried it, but my natural reaction would be to have /home and /var on the regular HD, and also /tmp if it's not on tmpfs. Then /boot and the rest of / on the SSD. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org