Arch Linux

rsw

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Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 25

Installing to a single root filesystem

I'm in the process of installing Arch again, this time on a device with only 4gb storage on it.  Because the amount of space available is so small, I don't want to split it up between /boot, /home, and swap.  I'd like to exclude swap altogether and keep all the subdirectories on the same partition.  There doesn't seem to be a way to do this using the autopartitioner, and manually setting them up always gives me grub errors.  Can anyone give me some pointers on what it is I might need to do to get this to work?

kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

Re: Installing to a single root filesystem

imo 4 gb may be just enough (clear the pkgs which you don't want to roll back in case and choose light weight applications). you don't need not to split the partitions for /home /boot etc.

Isola

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Registered: 2010-02-02

Posts: 99

Re: Installing to a single root filesystem

My root is at 2.8/3.7gb total, and have been for months. Sometimes I have to pacman -Scc, otherwise I'm okay.