--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> 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.
B