Toni Mueller wrote: > On 12/21/2011 11:55 AM, Russell Coker wrote: > > Nowadays 100G disks are small by laptop standards and for desktops 1TB is > > about the smallest that anyone would buy. > > Focussing on the desktop is the core of this - imho - misguided idea. > I'd still like to be able have a small, self-contained, Debian that I > can run on about anything. /usr is where all the real bloat (Gnome etc.) > lies, which may or may not be available, and if you eg. consider your > favourite phone storage, that's 512MB internally, or similar, with /home > presumably on an external storage (SD card).
If you want to run Debian on a phone with incredibly small internal storage, then either put / on external storage, or don't install large packages like GNOME if you only have 512MB available. And in any case, nothing discussed in this thread would stop you from splitting out /usr if you want to, as long as the initramfs mounts it. (Also, my favorite phone has 32GB of storage. :) ) - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120101214217.GA27644@leaf
