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This describe SDD optimization with system having encrypted root and swap.

SSD Optimization on the powerful laptop PC

For a PC with 256GB SSD with system having encrypted root and swap, system is mounted as:

$ mount
/dev/mapper/crypto-root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,discard,commit=600,errors=remount-ro,commit=600)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=5242880,mode=755,size=5242880,mode=755)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=755,size=10%,mode=755)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime,mode=1777,size=20%,mode=1777,mode=1777)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,size=20%,mode=1777,size=20%,mode=1777)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw,noatime,discard,commit=600,commit=600)
tmpfs on /var/log type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime,mode=1777)
tmpfs on /home/username/.cache type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,mode=700)
rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

This is done with the foloowings.

/etc/fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
### SSD: discard,noatime
### match battery operation default for commit JOURNAL_COMMIT_TIME_AC in Add files in /etc/pm/config.d/*
/dev/mapper/crypto-root /               ext4    discard,noatime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=709abe4b-81c1-96cb-8ac1-dace3159a1b7 /boot           ext4    discard,noatime,commit=600,defaults        0       2
### SSD: discard
/dev/mapper/crypto-swap_1 none            swap    sw,discard              0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
### SSD OPTIMIZATION:  /home/osamu/.cache on tmpfs
tmpfs /tmp               tmpfs rw,noexec,nodev,nosuid,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /usr/tmp           tmpfs rw,noexec,nodev,nosuid,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /var/log           tmpfs rw,noexec,nodev,nosuid,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /home/osamu/.cache tmpfs rw,noexec,nodev,nosuid,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,mode=700 0 0

/etc/pm/config.d/SET_JOURNAL_COMMIT_TIME_AC

JOURNAL_COMMIT_TIME_AC=600

LVM system needs to set /etc/lvm/lvm.conf as

...
# This section allows you to configure which block devices should
# be used by the LVM system.
devices {
...
    # Issue discards to a logical volumes's underlying physical volume(s) when
    # the logical volume is no longer using the physical volumes' space (e.g.
    # lvremove, lvreduce, etc).  Discards inform the storage that a region is
    # no longer in use.  Storage that supports discards advertise the protocol
    # specific way discards should be issued by the kernel (TRIM, UNMAP, or
    # WRITE SAME with UNMAP bit set).  Not all storage will support or benefit
    # from discards but SSDs and thinly provisioned LUNs generally do.  If set
    # to 1, discards will only be issued if both the storage and kernel provide
    # support.
    # 1 enables; 0 disables.
    #issue_discards = 0
    issue_discards = 1
}
...

Smaller system with SSD

See

• http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne?highlight=%28SSD%29#Reducing_Disk_Access_for_laptops_with_SSDs