[gentoo-user] I've got an ARM SoC board - now what dir's to put on the SSD

[gentoo-user] I've got an ARM SoC board - now what dir's to put on the SSD

[Andrew Lowe]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] I've got an ARM SoC board - now what dir's to put on the SSD

[Alan McKinnon]

On 14/07/2013 20:38, 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?


- move everything portage-related out of /usr/ into /var/ [1]
- move all of these to the ssd:
-   /var
-   /home
-   /srv
-   /media
-   /mount

and anything else written to frequently.

You won't find much in the way of real recommendations on this, as it's
all subject to how you want it to work best. What you will find out
there is much opinion about what is good, I just offered you mine.

A good starting point might be to look at projects like openelec for
Raspberry Pi and see how they do it, the use-case looks similar to yours




[1] IIRC this is the new portage default anyway unless you change it.
Make *much* more sense to change it


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] I've got an ARM SoC board - now what dir's to put on the SSD

[Yohan Pereira]

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