Will these instructions work when turning of journaling on an ext4 SSD?
- by snowlord
I have an Acer Aspire One with an SSD for storage. I recently installed Ubuntu on it and chose ext4 for my filesystem. Then I read that journaling on an SSD isn't the best idea, so I will try to disable journaling and I have found these intstructions (from http://fenidik.blogspot.com/2010/03/ext4-disable-journal.html):
# Create ext4 fs on /dev/sda10 disk
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda10
# Enable writeback mode. This mode will typically provide the best ext4 performance.
tune2fs -o journal_data_writeback /dev/sda10
# Delete has_journal option
tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda10
# Required fsck
e2fsck -f /dev/sda10
# Check fs options
dumpe2fs /dev/sda10 |more
For more performance add fstab opions: data=writeback,noatime,nodiratime
i.e:
/dev/sda10 /opt ext4 defaults,data=writeback,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
I will use them on my boot partition. Are there any particularly bad parts here, or are there any missing steps? Will my boot partition be fit for being on an SSD after this?
Or should I consider switching to ext2, or even reinstall it all and choose ext2 at partitioning time (I'd rather not though, since I've configured quite some stuff already)?
