Ben Armstrong <sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> writes: > Since 2007 I have successfully run Debian on two of these systems (no > live system, no squashfs). LXDE is lightweight and is what I > recommend to people wishing to save space, though you could start with > gnome-core and add a few extras if you like, and still have enough > room for your data (but a 4G SD card would help here).
+1; that's what I did when I ran a 701. > Certainly you could run a live system, but I don't know if the > benefits (squashfs saving space) are enough Some numbers: using custom kludges (like excluding all documentation), I can get an image down from 1.1GiB to 208MiB. That's an extra 918MiB (or 23% of an 4GB SSD) of space for porn. > to outweigh the down side (after a number of upgrades, your > persistence snapshot will grow, so to enjoy space savings again you > need to rebuild your live image, and of course the live system takes > longer to boot and consumes more RAM). I had the idea of implementing persistence by running mksquashfs on the cow directory, writing the result to live/<timestamp>.squashfs. That'd give you good compression on the persistence changes, such that you could keep doing that for a year or two, then copy them all to a grunt machine and roll a new "master" filesystem.squashfs. Obviously the mksquashfs would be very slow, even on a cow... my idea was to normally run a volatile boot, but (say) once a week, to persistent boot, apt-get update and dist-upgrade, roll a <timestamp>.squashfs, then boot back into volatile mode. ...of course, this approach needs live-boot to support morphix-style merging of multiple live-media, which IIRC the 3.x series will support. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739sjsa9o....@cybersource.com.au
