Replacing laptop hard drive with SSD.

[Nicias]

(Maybe this belongs in Kernel & Hardware, not sure) I have a laptop (core 2 duo celeron) that had it's spinning hard disk die some months ago. I replaced it with an older 2.5" disk I had around, but it was smaller so I had to give up my dual-boot windows. I just purchased a 120GB SSD (Samsung 830) and I am wondering what changes I have to make to adjust my system to this device.

Current fstab (minus boilerplate)

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LABEL=BOOT              /boot           ext2            noauto,noatime  1 2
LABEL=ROOT              /               ext3            defaults        0 1
LABEL=HOME              /home           ext3            defaults        0 2
LABEL=VAR               /var            reiserfs        defaults        0 2
LABEL=STUFF             /mnt/stuff      auto            defaults        0 0
LABEL=SWAP              none            swap            sw              0 0
tmpfs           /var/tmp/portage        tmpfs           defaults,size=3g        0 0
tmpfs                   /tmp            tmpfs           defaults,size=100m,nosuid,noexec,mode=1777      0 0
tmpfs                   /var/log        tmpfs           defaults,size=100m,nosuid,noexec,mode=1777      0 0
/dev/sr0                /mnt/cdrom      auto            noauto,ro,user  0 0

current df -h

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Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs          9.9G  4.9G  4.5G  52% /
/dev/root       9.9G  4.9G  4.5G  52% /
tmpfs           2.0G  384K  2.0G   1% /run
udev             10M     0   10M   0% /dev
cgroup_root      10M     0   10M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
shm             2.0G  140K  2.0G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5        25G   11G   13G  47% /home
/dev/sda6        20G  5.8G   15G  29% /var
/dev/sda7        16G  7.4G  7.0G  52% /mnt/stuff
tmpfs           3.0G     0  3.0G   0% /var/tmp/portage
tmpfs           100M   51M   50M  51% /tmp
tmpfs           100M  680K  100M   1% /var/log

planned fstab:

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LABEL=BOOT              /boot           ext4            noauto,noatime,discard  1 2
LABEL=ROOT              /               ext4            noatime,discard,defaults        0 1
LABEL=HOME              /home           ext4            defaults,noatime,discard        0 2
LABEL=STUFF             /mnt/stuff      auto            defaults        0 0
tmpfs           /var/tmp/portage        tmpfs           defaults,size=3g        0 0
tmpfs                   /tmp            tmpfs           defaults,size=100m,nosuid,noexec,mode=1777      0 0
tmpfs                   /var/log        tmpfs           defaults,size=100m,nosuid,noexec,mode=1777      0 0
/dev/sr0                /mnt/cdrom      auto            noauto,ro,user  0 0

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BOOT = /dev/sda1 64M
ROOT = /dev/sda2 25G
HOME = /dev/sda3 30G
STUFF = /dev/sda5 25G (ntfs or fat32)
WINDOWS = /dev/sda6 40G (ntfs or whateve windows want, linux won't touch it)

I know I should be careful to make sure that all of my parititons start on multiples of 2048 in fdisk, but that this can be done using +G/M for sizes. I don't plan on using swap, but I would like to be able so hibernate. Should I use swap or a hibernation file?

Right now I'm not running {h,s}dparm. Should I be? If so what options should I set? I am running smartd, (which was how I found out my old disk was dieing) the only config line I have for smartd is

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/dev/sda -I 194 -I 9 -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) -m root

Should I keep that or change it or get rid of it or what?

[galanom]

Hibernation does need swap, but at least TuxOnIce can use swap files instead of partitions. In main kernels it may still be possible but with some tweaking.

[Hu]

If you want to prevent normal use of swap, you might be able to use the suspend/resume hooks to activate swap just before you hibernate and deactivate it just after you resume.

[Nicias]

Looks like tuxonice can use a file. Any suggestions about the fstab? or partitioning? or smartd or anything else I should d