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#1 2012-07-21 22:42:05
- carolinabranden
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Optimization and Configuration - Flash Drive
I am installing Arch Linux x86_64bit onto a 4GB flash drive with an Arch Live CD. This is the first time I have tampered with installing an Arch OS in such a small space. My partitions will be /, /boot, Swap and /home. Figuring out what the sizes of each ought to be is somewhat boggling with so little room to use. cfdisk is open now awaiting my input. lol ;P Any ideas, tips or even possibly corrections? Thank you gentlemen or ladies for your input!
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#2 2012-07-21 22:51:56
- karol
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Re: Optimization and Configuration - Flash Drive
Putting swap on a flash drive may not be smart.
Do you really need separate /home? In you situation every couple hundred MB wasted can be painful.
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#3 2012-07-21 23:03:51
- carolinabranden
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Re: Optimization and Configuration - Flash Drive
Putting swap on a flash drive may not be smart.
Do you really need separate /home? In you situation every couple hundred MB wasted can be painful.
I had that on my mind too as a matter of fact. The system has more than enough RAM as is. Adding them is more or less a habit. 
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#4 2012-07-21 23:20:48
- brebs
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Re: Optimization and Configuration - Flash Drive
My partitions will be /, /boot, Swap and /home.
Why? You only need one partition, for /.
With 4gb RAM, I don't use/need a swap partition, and I run Windows under virtualbox.
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#5 2012-07-22 06:16:15
- DSpider
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Re: Optimization and Configuration - Flash Drive
4 GB is pretty small. You should consider investing $8-10 in a 16 GB USB stick.
Of course, you can try... but you can't afford multiple partitions at this time, so forget about a separate /home. Your /home dir will be a regular dir on the root fs.
Look into btrfs with LZO compression, and don't forget about the "usb" hook in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (and always remember to re-generate your initramfs image after editing this file). Other than that, there's not much to "optimize" or configure. Swap on flash media is definitely a bad idea. Come to think of it, a journalled filesystem (ext3, ext4, btrfs, reiserfs, NTFS, etc) is a bad idea for flash media... But they're cheap, who gives a shit.
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