Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-18 Thread Norman Rieß
On 08/17/10 18:59, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > Is a SSD capable of supporting gentoo ? That's a good idea ! > You may be a pionneer ! Let's try... Not really. Gentoo is running fine on SSD and why wouldn't it. A data storage device does not care what data it stores. Gentoo is even running fine on

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-17 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Tuesday 17 August 2010 18:31:16, Bill Longman a écrit : > On 08/17/2010 03:57 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote: > >> I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome. > >> > >> Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB = 7,1 GB > > > > Sorry: > > > > Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB = 5,1 GB > > I guess to best answer this q

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-17 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/17/2010 03:57 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote: >> >> I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome. >> >> Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB = 7,1 GB > > Sorry: > > Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB = 5,1 GB I guess to best answer this question you need to ask what you want to do. What are you trying to speed up?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-17 Thread Elmar Hinz
> > I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome. > > Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB =  7,1 GB Sorry: Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB = 5,1 GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-17 Thread Elmar Hinz
2010/8/17 Hal Martin : > A friend recently gave me a SimpleTech Zeus 8GB SSD. I'd like to replace my > hard drive with this SSD for the lower latency and faster access times it > will provide. > > Currently my / partition is 24GB, 20GB of which is in use. Using xdiskusage > I see that /usr/portage

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-16 Thread Hal Martin
A friend recently gave me a SimpleTech Zeus 8GB SSD. I'd like to replace my hard drive with this SSD for the lower latency and faster access times it will provide. Currently my / partition is 24GB, 20GB of which is in use. Using xdiskusage I see that /usr/portage and /var/tmp are using approxi