--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/11/2010 01:35 PM, Beartooth > wrote: > > I have F14 installed and running on > an EeePC 701 -- the earliest > > smallest slowest EeePC afaik. > > > > I also have an EeePC 701 with 512Mb memory and a 4Gb SSD > drive. > > > First you can't do a graphics install on this with F14, as > it is really > only 503Mb memory (Video is stealing that 8+Mb). So I > either upgrade > the memory (working on that) or do a text install and then > install gnome > later. > > Then 4Gb disk just does not cut it. So I have a 8Gb > SD card and I > partition as follows: > > On the SSD drive: > > A 200Mb ext3 /boot partition (for this system, I can't see > any value of > using ext4). > A 1.5Gb swap partition. > A ~2.2Gb ext3 /var/log partition (your most active system > directory). > > [snip] All my research recommended NOT using a journaling filesystem like ext3 on SSDs. It wears them out faster. Although, I did read one article where the writer actually crunched numbers, and concluded that SSDs made within the past couple of years have a mean "write" life equal to a typical hard drive. However, I decided to play it safe, and went with ext2. B -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
