[Tfug] Jumbo fonts in Xubuntu on XO laptop

[John Gruenenfelder]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:57:01PM -0700, Jude Nelson wrote:
>Hey John,
>
>I'm glad you're enjoying your XO!  I run Debian on a 4 GB SD card on
>my Zaurus PDA and have the same problems.  Here's what I did to
>minimize wear and tear on the card:
>
>Make /var/volatile
>
>Mount a tmpfs ramdisk on /var/volatile
>
>Symlink /var/cache, /var/run, /var/lock, /var/log, and /var/tmp to
>corresponding directories in /var/volatile/ (in RAM)
>
>Symlink /var/cache/apt to /var/apt (so when upgrading I save my .debs
>on the SD card)
>
>Symlink /tmp to /var/tmp (which links to /var/volatile/tmp)
>
>I modified my init scripts to save the contents of /var/volatile to
>/var/volatile.bak when shutting down, and restoring them during boot.
>
>I got the idea from Angstrom Linux (which is a stripped down Debian
>variant designed for embedded devices).
>
>Regards,
>Jude

Jude,

Thank you very much.  This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.
Shouldn't be difficult to put it into the Ubuntu startup since I'm already
using sysv-init.


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