> > Gentlemen - on some of my XO-1s I've installed perl onto my > > "permanent" SD card, rather than having it occupy jffs2. By > > doing so, I've saved about 33 MB of space in jffs2. > > > > Is that a large enough savings (given a 4000 MB XO-1.5) to be > > worth spending this much discussion on ? > > Yes, because some XO-1.5s may have 2GB, and your 33MB is compressed > size whereas the XO-1.5 uses an uncompressed fs -- the used space > on 1.5 may be several times your 33MB.
The 33 MB I gave is not compressed - it is what 'du' tells me about the directory tree on the SD card where I have (all of) perl installed. I have not added up how much space is taken up by having /versions in addition to what is needed to run a build - but I suspect the current "overhead" exceeds 100 MB. That's where I would start "saving space". mikus _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
