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On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote |
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> On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> > About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the |
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> > one I use and I know, about other alternatives like using squashfs, loop |
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> > mount... I cannot promise anything as I simply don't know how to set |
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> > them. |
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> Squashfs is really simple to use: |
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> mksquashfs /usr/portage portage.squashfs |
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> mount -o loop portage.squashfs /usr/portage |
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Don't the "space-saving filesystems" (squashfs, reiserfs-with-tail, |
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etc) run more slowly due to their extra finicky steps to save space? If |
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you really want to save a gigabyte or 2, run "eclean -d distfiles" and |
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"localepurge" after every emerge update. I've also cobbled together my |
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own "autodepclean" script that check for, and optionally unmerges |
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unneeded stuff that was pulled in as a dependancy of a package that has |
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since been removed. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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