From: Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I've got an ARM SoC board - now what dir's to put on the SSD
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 01:56:02 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130714202602.GA19537@dethkomp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E2F033.7060604@wht.com.au>
On 15/07/13 at 02:38am, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've bought one of the ARM based Cubieboards which I intend to use as a
> media server. I've got Gentoo running on it but would now like to push
> system "stuff" across from the SD card to the SSD drive - you can't boot
> from the actual SSD you need to do that from an SD card. This way it
> should be a bit quicker and I won't run out of SD card space as the
> system is updated. Can anyone point me to a webpage that has
> recommendations or has actual experience as to what I can shift across?
> I'm guessing /usr/portage/* would be the one to go across?
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
How about moving the entire / to the sd card and leaving just the
boot-loader and the kernel on the sdcard ?
OT:
When I was playing around with my raspberry pi I took a similar
approach but / was mounted over nfs. That way I could make changes
easily, that is until I got frustrated enough trying to get xmbc to work
and threw it all away and installed openelec :).
--
- Yohan Pereira
The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference
between a mermaid and a seal.
-- Mark Twain
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-14 18:38 [gentoo-user] I've got an ARM SoC board - now what dir's to put on the SSD Andrew Lowe
2013-07-14 20:00 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-14 20:26 ` Yohan Pereira [this message]
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