Have ordered Samsung PCIe SSD and the appropriate card for the X1 slot on my motherboard.
The idea is to run everything that isn't /home from there. Writes would therefore be
relatively few. It's 1tb, so there are wide open spaces for wear leveling. Should
greatly reduce drive-caused slowness.
All that isn't /home is on a 75gb partition on sda, and I thought I'd just dd it
over. But then it occurred to me: wouldn't that create the problem of two drives with
the same UUID?
The second issue is keeping the contents of the backup boot partition, a partition on sda,
in sync with the SSD. I looked at Raid 1, but I believe that requires starting with two or
more blank disks, not something to be tacked on later, so that's out. Is there a
fairly uncomplicated way of keeping their contents identical? Nice if automatic, but if I
need to do it manually every week or two, so be it.
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