Making space on an EeePC

Patrick Bartek bartek047 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 19 18:44:33 UTC 2010


--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Patrick Bartek <bartek047 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >
> > All my research recommended NOT using a journaling
> filesystem like ext3 on SSDs.  It wears them out faster.
>  Although, I did read one article where the writer actually
> crunched numbers, and concluded that SSDs made within the
> past couple of years have a mean "write" life equal to a
> typical hard drive.  However, I decided to play it safe,
> and went with ext2.
> 
> I still have F13 installed on mine but I used BTRFS with
> the SSD
> option and it seems to work well. I'm probably going to
> stick with F13
> since it works well enough and the update cycle should slow
> down.
> Doing a lot of updates on an older EEEPC sucks (time
> wise).

Have only heard of BTRFS recently and know little about it, but that will change over the next few days.

I opted for ext2 because of the years it had been around, and thus, was very stable and as bug free as one can make it.  And I was very familiar with administering it.

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