Ernesto Domato wrote: > My idea is to create just one disk with LVM joining the 4 Gb disk with the > 16 Gb disk but I'd read on this page > http://wiki.eeeuser.com/hardy_on_eee901that the 16 Gb disk is much > slower that the 4 Gb disk. So, maybe this is not > a great idea and is better to use the default the 4 Gb for / and the 16 Gb > for /home and in the case of need more space for some directory just create > it on /home a make a symlink where it should be on /
My understanding - though I haven't measured it - is that the speed difference is greater for writes than for reads. Since writes to / and /usr are relatively rare you might prefer to put /home and /var on the faster disk. But where do you need the extra capacity? Will you install some huge bloated software packages in /usr, or do you have you own huge photo collection in /home? Something that unifies the disks, like LVM, is the obvious solution. For some reason I didn't install it, and I wish I could remember why. Perhaps one day we'll have something that automagically migrates the frequently-used files to the faster disk. Phil. _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
