From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OlC7c-0007MH-Bl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:41:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 980F7E08F8; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F6CE08F8 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywo32 with SMTP id 32so2914252ywo.40 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:40:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=YwONdXHvipEopha+1UvgusYcUinckTyGPYDSshr2/vs=; b=Wm2DvcrfGwnsr54M3Pf5Xmj2yRtSjy29ocYUe5mRc6CgEtSlTfB+nuvQxOZTA4rhUo PlzxbcahWe52meyA0boPdDcIEWPboRlnAdAWKVLRwqOjXC+5hc9JnfEmYvhQsWLka3sK KZeNBACiLTHX4nVlj9JenEw4/rVBnX5H2pILw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ANdJu+GC+0npUyEWo2ezM8a6GAok9Jo9R1PVP/MHK5dFQjF7h5arXNNePN5bImseUD OvQjg4SNWa2d2HwQH589v5sdK+CvLQ+cILopCGImY2Sm38qfYiYuC81+kOviozKbVqrH ZHTEXEHCtzx4ZaI2YYNWqkc1rQPWE3JAAZlmc= Received: by 10.150.180.15 with SMTP id c15mr6375371ybf.449.1282012835856; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:40:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.101] (CABLE-72-53-83-226.cia.com [72.53.83.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm302405ybr.8.2010.08.16.19.40.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C69F69D.4050704@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:40:29 -0400 From: Hal Martin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100411 Icedove/3.0.4 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e378dd72-319e-420a-ad62-7fe8e3eb2f68 X-Archives-Hash: ba3fd947eb379d60c8d74f5dd2180527 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