#1 2016-05-02 12:15:59

Friendroid

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Optimizing partitioning on an Asus EEE 901 with 4Gb+16Gb SSD

I'm a linux noob trying to use this Asus EEE 901 for internet browsing and using guvcview to live monitor and record a usb webcam (wireless video system on a rc quadcopter).

It has a 4Gb main SSD and a 16GB SSD for storage. I have tried other distributions but even if I mount /home to the second SSD, the first SSD gets full quickly.

I would like to install Bunsenlabs on it but need help with the partition table. I am confused with all the info I found in this forum and through google, but I was thinking of doing something like this:

4Gb SSD:

100mb ext2 /boot
~2.9Gb ext4 /root (noatime & no_somethingelseIforgot)
1GB /swap

16Gb SSD:

/tmp
/usr
/var
/home

(not sure how large each & what order & primary vs logical)

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Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-05-02 12:51:43)

xaos52

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Re: Optimizing partitioning on an Asus EEE 901 with 4Gb+16Gb SSD

I would put everything on the 16Gb SSD. Keep as much free RAM as possible.
2 partitions: ext4 for root - primary and 1Gb swap.
Install Grub to the 16Gb SSD as well.

Proviso: I have never set up a system like  this.
Perhaps you'd better wait until someone with more experience on such a system chimes in.

Friendroid

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Re: Optimizing partitioning on an Asus EEE 901 with 4Gb+16Gb SSD

The 16GB SSD is significantly slower,it's generally not advised to leave /root there.

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Re: Optimizing partitioning on an Asus EEE 901 with 4Gb+16Gb SSD

Proviso: I have never set up a system like  this

+1

Perhaps try /etc and swap (do you need 1GiB? Half your RAM should be enough) and /boot [1] on the 4GiB drive with the root filesystem on the 16GiB device.

[1] See this excellent post by Rod Smith (the author of gdisk) for more on /boot partition formatting:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1208787

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