Ubuntu – What in /home would benefit from being on an SSD

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In Is a 40GB SSD practical to use for ' / ' Jorge describes how he symlinks directories in his /home that would benefit from being on an SSD. The directories he names are

  • ~/.cache
  • ~/.config
  • ~/.gconf

I know how to make the symlinks. What I am asking for is if this is a good list of directories in /home that benefits from being on an SSD? I figure that good items on such a list are files that are read often. The reason for asking this is that I cannot fit all of /home on the SSD but I still want to get as much performance out of the SSD as possible.

Best Answer

Here's a list of other things that might be useful (I've made this a wiki post so anyone can add to it):

  • .cache - temporty cache files for browsers and other programs.
  • .config - config files for programs
  • .gconfd abd .gconf - GNOME configuration files
  • .gegl-0.0 – file for GIMP
  • .gimp-2.6 – files for GIMP
  • .gnome2 – used by some GNOME 2 applications
  • .gvfs – data folder for the GNOME virtual filesystem
  • .local – user specific data. You will lose the Nautilus Trash functionality if this directory is put on a different partition.
  • .macromedia – files for flash
  • .mozilla – where all your Mozilla Firefox cache is
  • .thumbnails – thumbnails for pictures, videos, etc (used by Nautilus)
  • .thunderbird – where all your Mozilla Thunderbird cache is