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From: JohnF on 30 Mar 2010 19:19 Sylvain Robitaille <syl(a)alcor.concordia.ca> wrote: > JohnF wrote: > >> relatime/noatime? > I use "noatime" for all my SSD/SD mounted filesystems on the EeePC. Thanks, Sylvain. >> What's the best way to mke2fs/tune2fs/mount a flash drive type device? > "best" is a rather subjective term. Please don't go getting all pedantic on me, now. I was just speaking conversationally. > I've been satisfied with the above. That's all I was asking. >> Did somebody in this ng once recommend fat fs for data only backups? > Do you really think such advice can be taken seriously? I take your point (along with the snipped elaboration). But, yeah, I might take fat seriously. Not for a full partition backup, but I don't do those on flash drives/memory sticks anyway. However, lots of my projects, documents, etc are kept in zip files, and that kind of stuff's easily compatible with fat, if it provided any serious advantage over ext2/noatime. If not, it's a moot point. -- John Forkosh ( mailto: j(a)f.com where j=john and f=forkosh )
From: Peter Chant on 31 Mar 2010 19:47 Jerry Peters wrote: >> > I beg to differ, Slackware has been running just fine on my Aspire 1 > for over a year now. I don't know if the camera or microphone works > because I've never tried them, but everything else works quite nicely. > Even suspend works, to both disk and ram. Fine with slack 12.2 on my eee 900 with its 900 MHz Celeron - supposed to be slower and more power hungry than the atom, but I've not had my hands on an atom one. I've had the camera working, but I don't have a need for it. Mic is poor, but that is the hardware not os. Pete -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk
From: Jerry Peters on 1 Apr 2010 16:48 Sylvain Robitaille <syl(a)alcor.concordia.ca> wrote: > Jerry Peters wrote: > >>> ... the smartest thing I ever did for this thing was replace the >>> original (Xandros based) OS with Slackware. >>> >> It couldn't have been worse than Linpus which came with the AA1. ... > > No, it isn't that it (the EeePC Xandros-based shipped OS) was "bad". > It was different, and in fact I found it was remarkably well done (very > usable from a "just a user's" point of view, and not at all offensive > from a system administrator's point of view). I've definitely seen > (and worked with) much worse. > > I used it for a couple of years before I grew tired of the apparently > absent (after about the first six months or so) updates and hosed my > ability to use a (graphical) web browser on it when trying to update > Firefox manually (if they won't issue the update, said I, I'll just > do it myself!) That, of course, was the last straw (I'd already reset > the unit back to factory-fresh a couple of times since I'd bought it, > and was annoyed at having to redo all that I'd done to that point, > sometimes with not exactly the results I'd been after), so Slackware > went on. It took a couple of false starts to get going with it, but > once I had it installed, I realized how much I really should have done > that sooner ... It was like coming home after a long trip abroad ... > OK. Linpus on the other hand, was truly horrible. A previous poster seemed to assume that a special netbook OS would be designed to minimize writes to the SSD. Linpus had this nasty habit of over-writing config files on every boot, like /etc/hosts and some of the xfce menus. This made customizing it difficult, you had to go grepping among the init scripts trying to find this junk. After about 2 weeks I got tired of every change being a PITA. Since I was already running slack on a laptop, it was a simple matter of backing up the laptop and restoring to the AA1, then changing the hostname and xorg.conf to make things work. Jerry
From: Lew Pitcher on 3 Apr 2010 13:08 Warning: Lew Pitcher, who posts to this newsgroup, is a domain thief. Read the full story at http://www.lewpitcher.ca
From: Lew Pitcher on 3 Apr 2010 13:10
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