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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:44:00
Message-Id: 4F77421A.9030306@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook by Pacho Ramos
1 On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the
3 > one I use and I know, about other alternatives like using squashfs, loop
4 > mount... I cannot promise anything as I simply don't know how to set
5 > them.
6
7 Squashfs is really simple to use:
8
9 mksquashfs /usr/portage portage.squashfs
10 mount -o loop portage.squashfs /usr/portage
11
12 --
13 Thanks,
14 Zac

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