On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Maxim Wexler <maxim.wex...@gmail.com> wrote:
> HI group, > > My netbook has only (4+8)G of sketchy SSD + SDHC RAM for everything > and I am determined not to emerge anything I don't really need. > > But now that I'm mobile I have the capability of doing a -uD world > whenever it's required without having to take days of dialup time. > > Question is, when's that? I assume with fewer packages, updating is > not as urgent as on a big desktop with lots of HD space and lots of > apps. > > Is there some sort of rule-of-thumb when it comes to timing or spacing > their updates that members use to keep gentoo happy? > For my wife's EeePC-901 (4GD SSD, and that's it...), I do all my compiling on a chroot on my desktop box, with things like /var/tmp, /usr/portage, and other non-critical-for-system-use-but-critical-for-portage-to-run directories bind-mounted to alternative locations outside the chroot on my desktop HDD - I then exit the chroot, unmount everything from under the chroot, then copy the image over to a 4GB SD card, then ultimately (after booting/running the SD card for a week or so to make sure it's all working smoothly) copy the SD card image over to the internal SSD. The resultant image with KDE 4.2.x, Firefox, Openoffice 3.x, and all the pieces you could really want, is about 2GB. As far as updating, I wait until there is a very compelling reason to upgrade (just started rebuilding the chroot with KDE 4.3.1, and kernel 2.6.31), then I repeat the process. I encourage my wife to keep her data on an SD card instead of the internal SSD (which is fairly easy, since the internal SSD on those things are slower than molasses), and any misc data/prefs files that she cares about are easy to copy over. If I had to do everything on the netbook, with no assistance from my desktop, I would definitely nfs-mount /var/tmp, and probably /usr/portage, to keep SSD space usage down, and unnecessary write wear (100,000 iterations can happen awfully quickly, if you're dealing with a lot of small files, such as c files, .o files, and .h files...). Anyway, my $0.02... -James > Maxim > >
