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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 07:49:00PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to create a |
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> separate partition for /usr/portage tree. I remember my first Gentoo |
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> systems had it inside / and that lead to a lot of fragmentation, much |
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> slower "emerge -pvuDN world" (I benchmarked it when I changed my |
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> partitioning scheme to put /usr/portage) separate and a lot of disk |
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> space lost (I remember portage tree reached around 3 GB of disk space |
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> while I am now running with 300MB) |
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> Could handbook suggest people to put /usr/portage on a different |
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> partition then? The only doubt I have is what filesystem would be better |
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> for it, in my case I am using reiserfs with tail enabled, but maybe you |
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> have other different setups. |
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To be honest, I don't think it is wise to describe it in the Gentoo Handbook |
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just yet. I don't mind having it documented elsewhere, but the separate |
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partition is not mandatory for getting Gentoo up and running. The |
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instructions currently also just give an example partition layout and tell |
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users that different layouts are perfectly possible. |
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We need to take into consideration what is needed (must) for a Gentoo |
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installation, what is seriously recommended (should), what is nice to have |
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(could), etc. And for me, having a separate /usr/portage is a nice-to-have |
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imo. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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