john wendel wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test
this first!
Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by
pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair
Filesystem mode.
Thing is /etx fstab is readonly. vi fstab won't let me save the file.
I assume you have done the normal "write a ro file" command (:w!)
and that failed as well?
I really don't want to do a complete reinstall yet. I want to buy a
8Gb SD card first (and next time I am putting /usr on the SD card).
So how can I edit this?
Yes, that did not work. I am home now, and will just do a reinstall.
I was planning one anyway as I figured out the 'best' way to
distribute everything between a 4Gb SSD drive and a 4Gb SD drive.
When I just had everything (/) on the 4Gb SSD drive as a ext3
partition, the install failed. Moving /var/cache over to the SD drive
worked. But now after looking at things, I am going to put /usr on a
4Gb ext3 partition on the SD drive, a 1.5Gb swap and 2.5Gb / ext3 on
the SSD drive. I think that is the best I can do until I get a 8Gb SD
card, or figure out how to unsolder the SSD drive and install a
larger one....
I'm far from an expert, but I read that you should use EXT2 on a SSD
instead of EXT3, the drive will last longer due to less I/O activity
(the ext3 journal does too much I/O).
I have been seriously considering using ext2 on the SD drive. Afterall,
it will have /usr on it and not a lot of activity happens to files in
/usr (or am I missing something?). I figure to run the check program
(I'd have to research that again) after yum updates...
I have mixed feelings about ext2 for the SSD drive that would have the
rest of the / tree. adding 'noatime' (and NOT misspelling it this time!)
is a big win. Also need to look into nodiratime, seems it goes with
noatime. Don't see any other options that will cut out writes...
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