[Debian-eeepc-devel] About 901 and LVM

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Ernesto Domato, Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:23:04PM -0300 |=-
> Hi everyone, I just bought a new 901 and I'm about to install Debian on it

Naturally :)

> but I would like to hear some advice from you about this idea:
> 
> My idea is to create just one disk with LVM joining the 4 Gb disk with the
> 16 Gb disk

This is what I did and I am happy with the setup.

> but I'd read on this page
> http://wiki.eeeuser.com/hardy_on_eee901that the 16 Gb disk is much
> slower that the 4 Gb disk. So, maybe this is not
> a great idea and is better to use the default the 4 Gb for / and the 16 Gb
> for /home and in the case of need more space for some directory just create
> it on /home a make a symlink where it should be on /
> 
> What did you think about all this?, is the speed difference between the too
> really significant to not join the two in one 20 gb disk?.

The first SSD here gives me a read speed of 34MB/s and the second 
- 30MB/s.

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