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On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:49:00 +0200 |
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Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hello |
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> I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to |
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> create a separate partition for /usr/portage tree. I remember my |
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> first Gentoo systems had it inside / and that lead to a lot of |
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> fragmentation, much slower "emerge -pvuDN world" (I benchmarked it |
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> when I changed my partitioning scheme to put /usr/portage) separate |
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> and a lot of disk space lost (I remember portage tree reached |
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> around 3 GB of disk space 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 |
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> better for it, in my case I am using reiserfs with tail enabled, |
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> but maybe you have other different setups. |
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> Thanks for discussing this :) |
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not gonna happen, for reasons that SwifT & others already mentioned. |
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this is the sort of non-simple, non-trivial text/info/instructions |
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that would be better suited to an "optimizing your FS layout" article |
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on the gentoo wiki, or similar. |
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