[clue-cert] CERT meeting (Dennis's group) on Aug 26

Dennis J Perkins dennisjperkins at comcast.net
Sun Jul 25 14:51:11 MDT 2010


Actually, there were three Eee systems there.  Someone had a 710.  Dave
has my old 1000 and I have a new 12" Eee 1201T that I was going to show
you but we both seemed to be busy most of the time.

The OS does fit into 8 GB but I managed to slowly fill the partition up.

On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 14:14 -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> > I wonder if you could set up the 32 GB SSD as the root partition and the
> > 8 GB SSD as the home partition.  Or vice versa.  I think Arch was
> > installed only in the 8 GB one.  Or use LVM to merge them.
> 
> At installfest there was a Asus eee.  The Debian installer wasn't very intuitive about setting up 
> LVM but they wanted to merge the 2GB flash with a 4GB SD card.  That was easy to do and seemed to work.
> 
> I usually use LVM because I like to be able to move blocks around without disturbing the file 
> system.  In this case, merging both SSDs means you can't remove/swap out either (unless you take 
> steps to put all the OS files on the other).
> 
> I think the whole OS should fit in 8GB easily.  So you could keep the 32GB separate and use it for 
> data (under /srv, or /home, or wherever makes sense).  You could still use LVM if you wanted that 
> flexibility.
> 
> Dave
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