Gregory Nowak via Dng said on Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:44:48 -0700

>On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 03:32:37PM +1100, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
>wrote:
>> Note that "/dev/nvme0" refers to a collective of possible drives, and
>> that "/dev/nvme0n1" refers to the first drive in that collective, and
>> that "/dev/nvme0n1p1" would be the first partition of the first drive
>> in that collective.
>
>Thanks Ralph. None of my GNU/Linux systems have NVME drives, so I
>haven't a chance to work with something other than /dev/sdx so far.
>
>Greg

Hi Greg,

If you have a motherboard that can accommodate an NVMe drive, I suggest
you buy an NVMe (the 500MB ones are pretty cheap now, as are the 1TB),
and use it as your root partition (/). Then mount stuff like /home and
other stuff likely to A) Take a lot of space or B) Get rewritten a lot,
to a 7200 RPM spinning rust. Check out my NVMe's statistics:

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[root@mydesk ~]# df -h /
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p1  1.4T   67G  1.2T   6% /
[root@mydesk ~]#

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With only 6% of my space used (about 15% if I had a 500GB), my NVMe
will last a long, long time before it gets rewritten to death.

The benefit of having my / on NVMe is that my /usr and my /etc are on
it, which makes starting programs lightning fast. A Hello World Rust
program's executable is over 3.6MB, but from human perception it runs
instantly:

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[slitt@mydesk oldstuff]$ time ./hello
Hello world!

real    0m0.001s
user    0m0.000s
sys    0m0.001s
[slitt@mydesk oldstuff]$ ls -l hello
-rwxr-xr-x 1 slitt slitt 3677464 Feb 14 08:18 hello
[slitt@mydesk oldstuff]$

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SteveT

Steve Litt

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