I am getting a new SSD.
is there a linux utility that aids me by recommending/choosing/checking the correct partition (and potentially ext4) parameters to avoid the performance penalty?
my "default" is to simply create two partitions with fdisk according to its knowledge of the SSD, the first one starting whatever fdisk prompts me with, the second one starting about +32G beyond it and going to the end.
(in 2013, linux mint olivia, having to worry about partitions seems anachronistic. the linux fdisk and mkfs.ext4 utilities should really determine this for themselves and discard any early sectors that should not be used automatically, and set the correct erase block width. or do they do this already?)
/iaw