Making space on an EeePC

Steven I Usdansky usdanskys at rocketmail.com
Thu Nov 18 12:12:44 UTC 2010


----- Original Message ----

> From: fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
> To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Thu, November 11, 2010 1:16:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Making space on an EeePC
> It's not at all clear to me how one would go about installing f13 or  f14
> (or anything else similarly-sized) on a 4 gig device. You may have  better
> luck if you can stick an 8 gig (or bigger) SDHC card in the SDHC  card
> reader, install /boot on the internal 4 gigs and then let / and  /home
> spill over onto it.
> 

Been there, done that, here's how (more or less):
1. Install to a spacious partition on a similar system
2. Shrink partition containing the unstall to <4GB using gparted
3. Archive the filesystem (I use fsarchiver)
4. Format 4GB device (one ext2 partition)
5. Unarchive the archived filesystem to the 4GB device
6. Grow fs on 4GB device to fill the device
6. Install grub on 4GB device
7. Clean up mount point refs as needed
8. Reboot system from 4GB device


      


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