[ILUG] laptop slimdown...

[Wesley Darlington]

Hi All,

On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 06:35:42PM +0100, kevin lyda wrote:
> 1) install the bare minimum.

I find that debian's minimal install is really, really tiny.
As you find you need stuff, you apt-get it. Having a debian
mirror handy helps, though...

> 6) use tune2fs -r to reduce the # of reserved blocks (there's a
>    performance hit once you pass a certain point, so be careful).

Most oses are very quick to use 4kB blocksizes on partitions with
non-trivial sizes. This is usually a good thing (it's quicker in
(almost?) every respect) but costs you a little bit of disk space.
Use a separate console window at install time and make them yourself
with 1kB blocks.

> the biggest problem with this: upgrades suck.

Install debian. :-) :-)

Great tips, btw - thanks.

Wesley.