My next yawn-inducer is this.

I've managed to run Mint 12 on an Eee PC 901 (/ on the 4GB fast drive; /home on the 16GB slow drive.)

This leaves very little breathing space on the 4GB drive.

The 16GB drive really is pretty slow.

I'd like to upgrade to Mint 13 (Cinnamon or possibly XFCE - I've had problems with that in the past, but the latest one seems to be updating happily on VBox - we'll see).

Obviously, it makes sense to keep the operating system on the faster drive. /home seems to work fine on the larger but smaller drive.

I keep getting low space warnings during updates.

Would it help to put /var (as well as /home) on the larger drive when next I reinstall? Only a couple of hundred MB at the moment, but that would increase free space on the small drive by a significant percentage. It would be annoying if this caused a massive slow down overall; if it just slowed things down during updates and such, no problem.

And how much to allow /var? It's only a 16 GB drive (might actually be 8 on that one, now I think of it - ex Windoze machine.) Not something I'm likely to copy 9GB DVDs onto, but there's always an outside possibility of using it to copy a data DVD from/to external drives. This might simply be asking too much, of course.

Suggestions gratefully received...