> I found the best way to deal with the Eee 900's two drives was to create > a small root partition (I used 200M) and swap on sda. Then make the rest > of sda and all of sdb into an LVM volume group. I still use ext3 for /, > but it contains so little that inodes are not an issue. You definitely > want to get /usr/portage, $PORTAGE_TMPDIR and $DISTDIR off the root > partition.
Just got back from Circuit City or whatever it's called with a 16G SD card and I'm steeling myself for the big task ahead. Just what do you have under root? How did you format the rest? Maxim