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Well you can omit the size option, and the ramdisk size will only be |
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limited by the size of your memory plus swap. If you want to limit it, |
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you can set the size to whatever you want. |
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On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 09:41, Nicholas Henke wrote: |
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> On 24 Jan 2003 08:39:43 -0600 |
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> "Christopher J. PeBenito" <pebenito@××××.org> wrote: |
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> > If you want to compile in a ramdisk, couldn't you simply mount a tmpfs |
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> > at /var/tmp/portage? |
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> > Something like this (tmpfs max size 512MB): |
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> > mount -t tmpfs none /var/tmp/portage -o size=512m |
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> Sadly enough, 512 is not enough for things such as X. I am not sure if there are other packages that require more to build. |
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> Nic |
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