Installation recommendations for SG2220 + M.2
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What are the recommended installation options for an SG2220 with an M.2 card installed.
(1) Should a full install be done on the M.2 (and leave the emmc as a fallback)?
(2) Should the M.2 be used for storage for logs, squid cache, etc ?
If (1), how does one configure this card as the default boot device?
tia..
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how fluent are you in BSD partition manipulation?
I added 120g of ssd to my box and initially thought I'd get fancy with partitioning.
I changed my mind on that after setting up a layout while booted from flash, copying across filesystems with a mix of dd for boot and sync for regular files, and generally expecting it to be fairly Linux-like.
no boot.
then I used a memstick installer and took the time to be fancy.
box crashed on me and triggered a filesystem rebuild. / was chewed up some.
no bueno.
then I reinstalled from stick, nuked partitions and said next next next. worked well, and added sync for / to fstab. this morning I spent all of 20 minutes getting a clean reinstall to test something.
muy bien!
I use the advanced setting option to keep /tmp and /var in ram, and avoid killing the disk. for swap, I create a file and call the file from fstab rather than using a partition.
and if I screw up the ssd, the flash memory with factory os is still in the box and usable.
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(1) Should a full install be done on the M.2 (and leave the emmc as a fallback)?
This would be the most and common installation method, full install on a SSD/mSATA/M.2 but
the full installation can also be done on the eMMC storage because it is predestinated for many
read/write cycles without failures. So if the nor SquidGuard are not really needed it would be
also a really gain for many update / upgrade procedures.