Disk performance on the Eee PC.

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Mon, 08/18/2008 - 00:35

I own the 4GB Eee PC and I love it a lot. I was trying to develop ways to get more apps installed and increase performance.

I studied UnionFS and SquashFS and came up with great results. I squashed my /usr and /opt and turned 4GB install of Arch Linux into 1.5GB.

I was able to install a lot more applications on my computer. I increased disk perform

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