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 3F0EF1381F3 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 01:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E959E0A87; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 01:01:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [74.208.4.194]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0AD4E09EF for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 01:01:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (66-208-231-133.ubr01a.rte20201.pa.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [66.208.231.133]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lj20c-1UQTdI2HxG-00dHSk; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:01:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:01:25 -0500 From: Bruce Hill To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration Message-ID: <20130720010125.GY3387@server> References: <20130718182232.5c1301ce@acme7.acmenet> <51E8E30E.20906@gmail.com> <20130719114234.332ff09e@acme7.acmenet> <51E96CBB.4080300@gmail.com> <20130719200018.474e06af@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <51E9C5D2.1040108@gmail.com> <20130719202308.02520045@acme7.acmenet> <51E9CE42.6080804@gmail.com> <20130719205859.7f78a14d@acme7.acmenet> 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: <20130719205859.7f78a14d@acme7.acmenet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:0sVtEQoyEQMARqQp01tXbZbAnx9P0dcf6JjD0Ig2VpC l82RhJk9ENWogSRX9l9iLY1NmKMiCdw96++AK0DIDrPQ49RAJS 3ml3uISR6CtD1JE8ESjKdTsVghzitDe7I1M3pCSDrJjpl3ti4o JKwtvcN4+0/t+x9M1w+YkEwroNAuSZoSKhNwgHt+vgtNCpuAKa uNATY2INUeZt1e/NcSX9hRVojZAyMVGJ7X3i0drlmfoEzQy7ab wmXt+TzlY+pSIfxRKlTDhvDFa01kDpRCpSGJ0gEaNAZqI2LyG4 3cqE8Mqv09GHZjSTk0pq/HgcBOoHelbMYTqeqByL8W8CW1KkZY i0v+YPoqCzLC8VT1zrcE= X-Archives-Salt: 77225d26-514e-4c4d-a010-683d5ddd6135 X-Archives-Hash: 84886b299d80f78bd71e04da4c2a277b On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:58:59PM -0300, luis jure wrote: > > i had a 30Tb partition for my system in my old HDD, and the breathing > space wasn't quite "plenty". often i found myself with less than the 6Gb > free required by libreoffice to compile, and i had to clean up a bit. > other than that yes, 30Gb is more than enough. in this new SSD i just > installed i made a partition of 40Gb for / . Stop using disk and build in RAM: tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs size=7000M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 workstation ~ # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 15798 3711 12087 0 0 937 -/+ buffers/cache: 2772 13025 Swap: 8103 0 8103 -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ support@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting