netbook vs tablet

[JD]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/23/2012 02:56 PM, JD wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Fedora 17?  The page I reference seems to have F17 working somewhat
>>>>> better than you report.
>>>>
>>>> With a keyboard permanently attached ...
>>>>
>>>>> I might as well stay with Android.  I actually have to start working
>>>>> with it for my day job.  I work for Verizon Enterprise Systems and my
>>>>> research is leading me to working on some product development. Sigh.  I
>>>>> LIKE research; kind of like Medcalf back at Xerox....
>>>>
>>>> One of the problems with trying to drop Linux onto most tablets is the
>>>> complete lack of a real disk subsystem, just slow SD card interfaces.
>>>> That really hurts although it can still be usable.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bad performance could be the result of 'less than optimal' SD cards.
>>> Even slow-rated cards (Class 4) sometimes outperform fast (Class 10)
>>> cards
>>> depending on what you do with them.  Checkout the following analysis:
>>>
>>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12330898
>>
>> I agree as far as SD card performance grade.
>> When you switch to the Extreme level of performance (45MB/s read/write),
>> you will see almost hard drive level of performance. Of course, you must
>> be aware of what happens to SD card when written to very often.
>> So I would suggest that you mount you /tmp and /var/tmp and your home dir
>> on some other drive.
>
> I mounted all of /var on the SDD to include logs. But is there a way to
> mount /tmp and /var to the same partition?  That is a major issue:  how to
> figure out how large to make separate partitiions when there is so little
> space to work with!
>
> As for /home, there is very little writing to /home.  It is better to manage
> all frequent data on a USB drive.
>
>

I would think that you would have to do it manually.
There is a way to overlay any directory with a directory
on some other permanent storage device. This is called
the overlay feature.
I know how to do this for Knoppix live. Not sure how
to do it for fedora live because I have not and do not use it.