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From: Hal Martin <hal.martin@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:40:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C69F69D.4050704@gmail.com> (raw)

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



             reply	other threads:[~2010-08-17  2:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-17  2:40 Hal Martin [this message]
2010-08-17 10:52 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD Elmar Hinz
2010-08-17 10:57   ` Elmar Hinz
2010-08-17 16:31     ` Bill Longman
2010-08-17 16:59       ` Stéphane Guedon
2010-08-18 10:18         ` Norman Rieß

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