FC9 for a ASUS Eee 700

[Alan Evans]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> Alan Evans wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
>> wrote:
>> I installed F10 (actually, the Omega spin) on my 900A and I'm
>> extremely pleased. I did a few customizations, such as mounting /tmp
>> in RAM. But overall it just worked.
>>
>
> How? Instructions please? Of course I need more memory for that...

Add this to your fstab:

tmpfs     /tmp         tmpfs     defaults     0 0
tmpfs     /var/log     tmpfs     defaults     0 0
tmpfs     /var/tmp     tmpfs     defaults     0 0

Keep in mind that /var/log will be lost each reboot, so you'll have to
revert that if you are having some issue and want to see your logs
after reboot. I wasn't brave enough to do /var/run as well, but I
wanted to. Maybe someone else can comment on how safe that is.

I also changed my root filesystem to ext2 to avoid journal writes, and
added noatime to the options (replace "defaults" with
"defaults,noatime"), which avoids more useless writes. Be aware that
this causes me trouble with kernel updates:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-January/msg00198.html

We should start a wiki someplace to keep track of all this stuff.
(EeePC owners unite!)

-Alan