On Friday 01 October 2010 12:08:24 Russell Polo wrote: > I'm running a laptop on a Compact flash disk > http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1012554&l=c3cbb2ff8c&id=1645041910 > > I chose to use the CF disk because is was cheaper than the smallest > laptop hard drive I could find to replace a dead dead hard drive. ( I > think it was about $28 around the time I uploaded that photo)
CF cards have gotten very cheap lately. For the last few years I've been running some Alix boxes by PC Engines [this is the current equivalent to the 2c3 boards I'm running: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm] using some 1 GB CF cards from them that were $10. > what precautions should I be taking (if any ) in addition to EXT2 and > "noatime" (so it doesn't update the access times for files ) should be > taking ? ext2 + mounting 'noatime' covers the majority of it. One other obvious thing: don't make a swap partition (nor a swap file) on a flash device. And if you really care, store temporary files into a ramdisk to minimize write cycles on the flash. You don't /have/ to do this if you don't want to, though -- for normal uses like a firewall, I haven't bothered with this. > The machine has no critical data on it. It's used only to run firefox, > ssh and vncviewer. I had Ubuntu on it but that didn't suspend/resume > properly and one day the drive failed in some way that it could not be > mounted by anything. > > I reformatted the drive, installed FC13 a few months ago, has been fine > since. ( suspend/resume works ) suspend/hibernate/resume are tricky and are very sensitive to kernel changes. Ubuntu tend to take a few risks in terms of their choices of how they build their kernel; that has upsides and downsides. Red Hat, Debian, and others tend to be more conservative. Not sure about Fedora, but I suspect it would lie somewhere in-between. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Oct 6 - Creating Browser Extensions for Firefox and Chrome Nov 3 - Open Source Hardware: Bugs, Beagles and Beyond Dec 1 - IBM's Open Client Deployment
