On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 9:55 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > > I think what I read is that it is done automatically. They could have > meant a cron job. I don't think they said how, just that it is already > set up to do it. Firmware was mentioned in the thread somewhere so I > thought maybe that was it. Either way, fstrim is installed here. It's > part of util-linux and that is pulled in by several packages. I doubt > it will be going away here anytime soon given the long list of packages > that need it. Just to set up a cron job for it. Remembering the steps > for that will take time tho. o_O >
Hey - it's the Internet. I thought we could trust everything we read... <SNIP> > > > I've thought of a few options myself. I sort of have a OS copy/backup > already. I currently do the compiling in a chroot on a separate drive. > I then copy the compiled packages and use the -k option to update the > live OS. I'll continue to do that when I start booting from the SSD. > That should limit writes and such to the SSD. I also got to rearrange > things so I can put swap on that spare drive I compile on. I don't want > swap on a SSD. I wish this thing would stop using swap completely. I > have swappiness set to 1 already and it still uses swap. > Well, that sounds like a solution to do your emerge work although you're limited to the speed of that hard drive. If it's done in the background then maybe you don't care. > Right now, I'm debating the size of /boot. Knoppix is pretty large. > The Gentoo LiveGUI thingy is too. So, it will have to be larger than > the few hundred megabytes my current one is. I'm thinking 10GBs or so. > Maybe 12GBs to make sure I'm good to go for the foreseeable future. > They may limit them to DVD size right now but one day they could pass > that limit by. Software isn't getting smaller. Besides, USB is the > thing now. > I guess I don't understand why you would put Knoppix in the boot partition vs somewhere else. Is this for some sort of recovery process you're comfortable with vs recovering from a bootable DVD? - Mark
