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 63E211381F3 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:02:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D591AE0A02; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:02:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com (mail-wi0-f177.google.com [209.85.212.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A76C6E096C for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:02:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f177.google.com with SMTP id ey16so2195210wid.4 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:02:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VCv5aYd20E2ylSGAUBhbRjAtX1rEjU0A8F5wg3hBesw=; b=SFP4oV+uSA4h02tYzGij1Tlvj2wk4p14nxAVB4f/jXklJocDCwGnZCQ1PkMpElPh4q PAmXomoPC/EEXu/zp4JtgSdKYgOoKFrFrJyJQ5hzLXQ5cLhCwIuYIRTr0pPNUd92ExTk 4qT0j/o0vGWOx+/XaKEg65rDHl58xiZq0Jv8n1V6w77Np7ICous4Y8Rk9KoGYTq/fAlm vbNrCmiGlAsNu709C9ZJUSv/FDZhWtEQZplkZLU+9PUDQ9gLEX65Cg4pbAYDvauLc/Wo mkodziNPc8mDN6DKcAYsxBTLHrH95k5D1X46DCBhQ6WTNUD4yhTNDBb34ciifRrphgKv mXFw== X-Received: by 10.180.20.116 with SMTP id m20mr6801286wie.46.1373832164148; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:02:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-102-104.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.104]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f8sm15835014wiv.0.2013.07.14.13.02.42 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:02:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51E30360.4020908@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 22:00:32 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130709 Thunderbird/17.0.7 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: Re: [gentoo-user] I've got an ARM SoC board - now what dir's to put on the SSD References: <51E2F033.7060604@wht.com.au> In-Reply-To: <51E2F033.7060604@wht.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d827c4eb-4ec7-4310-9d99-2ead1063108e X-Archives-Hash: a791b6fdb0062c45342d850da2d871e4 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