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On 14/07/2013 20:38, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I've bought one of the ARM based Cubieboards which I intend to use |
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> as a media server. I've got Gentoo running on it but would now like to |
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> push system "stuff" across from the SD card to the SSD drive - you can't |
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> boot from the actual SSD you need to do that from an SD card. This way |
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> it should be a bit quicker and I won't run out of SD card space as the |
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> system is updated. Can anyone point me to a webpage that has |
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> recommendations or has actual experience as to what I can shift across? |
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> I'm guessing /usr/portage/* would be the one to go across? |
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- move everything portage-related out of /usr/ into /var/ [1] |
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- move all of these to the ssd: |
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- /var |
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- /home |
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- /srv |
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- /media |
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- /mount |
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and anything else written to frequently. |
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You won't find much in the way of real recommendations on this, as it's |
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all subject to how you want it to work best. What you will find out |
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there is much opinion about what is good, I just offered you mine. |
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A good starting point might be to look at projects like openelec for |
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Raspberry Pi and see how they do it, the use-case looks similar to yours |
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[1] IIRC this is the new portage default anyway unless you change it. |
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Make *much* more sense to change it |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |