 Hello people. I did a fresh install with latest version. Everything is fine, except that my HDD seems slow when I use it for the 1st time after booting. I don't recall that happened before. But, unlike my previous, outdated installation, now I have linux in a SSD and my data in a HDD. That HDD is the one that feels a bit sluggish now... could it be something related to how it is mounted?
 This is my current fstab : https://matterbridge.lubuntu.me/a12007f0/file_7154.jpg
 Which is correct?
 1) I installed Linux installed in my HDD
 2) I installed Linux on my HDD (re @Rodrigo: Hello people. I did a fresh install with latest version. Everything is fine, except that my HDD seems slow when I use it for the 1st time after booting. I don't recall that happened before. But, unlike my previous, outdated installation, now I have linux in a SSD and my data in a HDD. That HDD is the one that feels a bit sluggish now... could it be something related to how it is mounted?)
 Rodrigo its the nature of HDDs.  They will always be slower than SSDs.
 Thanks Thomas. I understand. But I still have some hope that it's something else. When I was using it as my home+OS disk, it did not show such a lag, say between my click and the response (almost 1 second!)
 Can you hear your drive when i spins?
[18:47] <genii> You may want to check if the spinnydisk has a swap partition on it which is being used
[18:48] <genii> ( it may not be entered in the fstab but autodetected and used during boot)
 yes, everytime I click after a few minutes of inactivity (eg I was just reading) I can hear how it starts spinning. Could it be related to auto-switch off or something to save power? (re @Michaël: Can you hear your drive when i spins?)
 mmm good point, I will research a bit how to do that (re @lubuntu_bot: (irc) <genii> You may want to check if the spinnydisk has a swap partition on it which is being used)
 well it does appear in the fstab though (re @lubuntu_bot: (irc) <genii> ( it may not be entered in the fstab but autodetected and used during boot))
[18:52] <arraybolt3[m]> It may be a power-saving thing, yes.
 This is my fstab file:
 # <file system>             <mount point>  <type>  <options>  <dump>  <pass>
 UUID=DC18-72CF                              /boot/efi      vfat   umask=0077   0 2 
 UUID=03a76f18-87a1-4e2f-b3c4-07ccfe7511f7   /              ext4   discard      0 1 
 UUID=96782954-2c88-4c7a-87d1-f42396d80456   /media/r.all   ext4   defaults     0 0 
 /swapfile                                   swap           swap   defaults     0 0
[18:54] <genii> Does: sudo blkid |grep swap     ..show a swap partition still existing on the old HDD which you previously installed the operating system to?
 could be it requires a reboot (re @Rodrigo: yes I see. thanks)
 I get nothing back when I type those commands (re @lubuntu_bot: (irc) <genii> Does: sudo blkid |grep swap     ..show a swap partition still existing on the old HDD which you previously installed the operating system to?)
[18:55] <genii> OK, that is a good thing then :D
 This is how gparted sees my HDD:
 https://matterbridge.lubuntu.me/47cd0f36/file_7185.jpg
 👌🏽 (re @lubuntu_bot: (irc) <genii> OK, that is a good thing then :D)
[19:00] <genii> I made this mistake before where I did a dd from platter drive to SSD and then changed the UUID on the new drive and adjusted the fstab, but forgot that the swap partition on the original had not been deleted/deactivated and was puzzled for a while about why performance was not as fast as expected. Just trying to save someone else this headache 
 ok, that's valuable info! I will dig into that tomorrow, it may be related to my situation as well! (re @lubuntu_bot: (irc) <genii> I made this mistake before where I did a dd from platter drive to SSD and then changed the UUID on the new drive and adjusted the fstab, but forgot that the swap partition on the original had not been deleted/deactivated and was puzzled for a while about why performance was not as fast as expected. Just trying 
 thanks people!