On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Patrick Bartek <bartek047@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- On Thu, 11/18/10, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 11/11/2010 01:35 PM, Beartooth >> wrote: >> > I have F14 installed and running on >> an EeePC 701 -- the earliest >> > smallest slowest EeePC afaik. >> > >> >> I also have an EeePC 701 with 512Mb memory and a 4Gb SSD >> drive. >> >> >> First you can't do a graphics install on this with F14, as >> it is really >> only 503Mb memory (Video is stealing that 8+Mb). So I >> either upgrade >> the memory (working on that) or do a text install and then >> install gnome >> later. >> >> Then 4Gb disk just does not cut it. So I have a 8Gb >> SD card and I >> partition as follows: >> >> On the SSD drive: >> >> A 200Mb ext3 /boot partition (for this system, I can't see >> any value of >> using ext4). >> A 1.5Gb swap partition. >> A ~2.2Gb ext3 /var/log partition (your most active system >> directory). >> >> [snip] > > All my research recommended NOT using a journaling filesystem like ext3 on SSDs. It wears them out faster. Although, I did read one article where the writer actually crunched numbers, and concluded that SSDs made within the past couple of years have a mean "write" life equal to a typical hard drive. However, I decided to play it safe, and went with ext2. I still have F13 installed on mine but I used BTRFS with the SSD option and it seems to work well. I'm probably going to stick with F13 since it works well enough and the update cycle should slow down. Doing a lot of updates on an older EEEPC sucks (time wise). Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
