[Debian-eeepc-devel] Idea about partitioning on 901

[Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp]

I linked the cache of mozilla to /tmp/something (that is created on login) and 
habe my home on the big slow sdd. workes nice and the cache is automatically 
cleared on startup :-)

anyway, I use the eee for data aquisation and not to work with.

nik


Am Freitag, 12. Juni 2009 schrieb Ernesto Domato:
> Well, I'd decided to reinstall my Eee 901 because the first time, I'd
> used LVM to join the two internal SSD. The problem that I see with
> this is that because of the slow write performance on the 16Gb disc,
> sometimes the machines hangs for several seconds waiting for something
> to finish. Maybe this is not related to LVM and the second disc, but
> after reading the wiki article about the problem with Mozilla
> (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/TipsAndTricks#SpeedupsluggishIceweasel.
>2BAC8-Firefox3) I thought that maybe some changes on the partitioning may
> help to the situation.
>
> So, this is what I was thinking and will like to know your feedback:
>
> The 4Gb disc is the fastest at writing, so my idea is to create 2
> partitions. The first one will be 1Gb for /var since the system writes
> often here (for example, on /var/log) and the second will  3Gb for
> /home (I'll explain why this soon).
>
> Then, on the 16Gb create two more partitions. The first will be 4Gb
> for / and the second one will be 12Gb for /var/local/homes_data
>
> So, the idea of the 3Gb partition mounted on /home is to be used for
> all the dot-directory (the hidden ones) that use to be updated often
> by the programs you use to keep configuration changes and things like
> that (see the Mozilla problem that I point before). The rest (for
> example the Desktop directory) is linked to
> /var/local/homes_data/$USER for storage purpose.
>
> As you can see, the whole idea is to try to gain the maximum
> performance from this nice machine.
>
> What did you think?.
>
> Thanks.
> Ernesto.
>
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