From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 090791381F3 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:24:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5734AE0A02; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:24:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-f171.google.com (mail-pd0-f171.google.com [209.85.192.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E4C1E08ED for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:24:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f171.google.com with SMTP id y14so10062158pdi.2 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:24:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=Nm1phHEf8sxYaNHSyXC7VBQoItxBAkSpbIj4pU0aAbE=; b=Vk4tv39UGyHSiEpYaDBylz3PPvgvAZhZ9SxpVTZUmF3e0BelGgeE0HChMD30KjmryU NCY0HQLHP7OkEm8pNHYZVeCUfALOgI3ZUMTOULvFaE4XiukAyKSrSwScIuGev8OeM9He ObK0/mr4Sg2pP2HFCjLL6XAz6T/Lc2xNvzKk5wdSc8oWlNfXmfFUg84y8vwJ+tDEjT3K u829Y20ULBoisuXHX9+1Fr35o7GyOxpZkcVAuAB0G8NDI7wKLlhPv4d3d75ZyyhyfjK2 egOtCmkwlf+g6Vf/qtfEj3xZdfnDPcETNBVZQr6rqOCxJ7J+rrvjhvbMVvSSJ9Tp8Bpm LTYw== X-Received: by 10.66.162.9 with SMTP id xw9mr51994554pab.64.1373833490006; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (triband-mum-59.182.89.89.mtnl.net.in. [59.182.89.89]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id om2sm56915599pbb.34.2013.07.14.13.24.47 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:24:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 01:56:02 +0530 From: Yohan Pereira 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 Message-ID: <20130714202602.GA19537@dethkomp> References: <51E2F033.7060604@wht.com.au> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51E2F033.7060604@wht.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 3e50bfa7-d97a-4bf4-875d-1d6f225adf8b X-Archives-Hash: f34321e2f7158844b9bab1afb0ca7d93 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