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