[gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

[Hal Martin]

A friend recently gave me a SimpleTech Zeus 8GB SSD. I'd like to replace 
my hard drive with this SSD for the lower latency and faster access 
times it will provide.

Currently my / partition is 24GB, 20GB of which is in use. Using 
xdiskusage I see that /usr/portage and /var/tmp are using approximately 
10GB, which is well over the 7.5GB I have on the SSD.

So, I'm wondering what suggestions the list has for squeezing Gentoo 
onto an SSD. I have another Gentoo box I could put /usr/portage on to 
save myself some room on the SSD.

Aside from NFS mounting the package source and build directories, is 
there anything else I can do to minimize the space needed? I'm not 
running anything terribly fancy. I have DR17/enlightenment and XFCE 
installed as window managers; along with some productivity applications.

Thanks for your feedback,
Hal Martin

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

[Elmar Hinz]

2010/8/17 Hal Martin <hal.martin@gmail.com>:
> A friend recently gave me a SimpleTech Zeus 8GB SSD. I'd like to replace my
> hard drive with this SSD for the lower latency and faster access times it
> will provide.
>
> Currently my / partition is 24GB, 20GB of which is in use. Using xdiskusage
> I see that /usr/portage and /var/tmp are using approximately 10GB, which is
> well over the 7.5GB I have on the SSD.

I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome.

Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB =  7,1 GB

Maybe you just need to do some cleanup of your outdated sources?

Regards

Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

[Elmar Hinz]

>
> I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome.
>
> Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB =  7,1 GB

Sorry:

Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB =  5,1 GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

[Bill Longman]

On 08/17/2010 03:57 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote:
>>
>> I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome.
>>
>> Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB =  7,1 GB
> 
> Sorry:
> 
> Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB =  5,1 GB

I guess to best answer this question you need to ask what you want to
do. What are you trying to speed up? Booting? Emerging? Just general
speedup? With only 8GB, I'm not sure there's much you can do to simply
put it in and, presto, you're 186% ricing. You'll have to look at where
the heaviest I/O is taking place and at what times. Just off the top of
my head, I'd say you'd want to put /var/tmp and maybe /tmp if yours
isn't a tmpfs.

If you have plenty of RAM, the OS will cache most of the /bin, /lib and
/usr/bin stuff for you, so what will you gain if you put those there,
for the fraction of them that you actually use? If you are *low* on RAM,
you would want to put /usr/lib on the SSD. It's 1.7G on my desktop
system (KDE, XFCE).

My two cents.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

[Stéphane Guedon]

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Le Tuesday 17 August 2010 18:31:16, Bill Longman a écrit :
> On 08/17/2010 03:57 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote:
> >> I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome.
> >> 
> >> Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB =  7,1 GB
> > 
> > Sorry:
> > 
> > Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB =  5,1 GB
> 
> I guess to best answer this question you need to ask what you want to
> do. What are you trying to speed up? Booting? Emerging? Just general
> speedup? With only 8GB, I'm not sure there's much you can do to simply
> put it in and, presto, you're 186% ricing. You'll have to look at where
> the heaviest I/O is taking place and at what times. Just off the top of
> my head, I'd say you'd want to put /var/tmp and maybe /tmp if yours
> isn't a tmpfs.
> 
> If you have plenty of RAM, the OS will cache most of the /bin, /lib and
> /usr/bin stuff for you, so what will you gain if you put those there,
> for the fraction of them that you actually use? If you are *low* on RAM,
> you would want to put /usr/lib on the SSD. It's 1.7G on my desktop
> system (KDE, XFCE).
> 
> My two cents.

Is a SSD capable of supporting gentoo ? That's a good idea !
You may be a pionneer ! Let's try...
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

[Norman Rieß]

On 08/17/10 18:59, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
> 
> Is a SSD capable of supporting gentoo ? That's a good idea !
> You may be a pionneer ! Let's try...

Not really. Gentoo is running fine on SSD and why wouldn't it. A data
storage device does not care what data it stores.
Gentoo is even running fine on CF.
This is my first hand experience.

Regards
Norman