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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:50:33 +0000 |
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"Benjamen R. Meyer" <bm_witness@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates |
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> to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough |
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> space on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition |
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> that I had cleaned up (this was from a rebuild of a system that was a |
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> different distro in the past) and moved over /usr/portage to it. It's |
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> a 47 GB partition (as reported by df -h) and the system works fine. |
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47 Gigs is quite a lot of space for the portage tree. The ebuilds |
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take up a few hundred megabytes, and the distfiles generally fill up a |
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few gigs by the time you get everything installed (i recommend you keep |
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them around, if you plan to share portage with others). The amount of |
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space you provide is overkill -- but more importantly, I worry that you |
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may need to reclaim some of that 47GB to use for your root partition, |
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as 3.8GB isn't a particularly large amount for this, especially if you |
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have /var on that partition as well. |
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I generally go 5 or 10 gigs for a root partition, the latter being more |
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appropriate for a general purpose graphical workstation. My shared |
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portage tree has been deployed for quite a while now and is about 5.4 |
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gigs, with roughly 5G of that accounted for by distfiles. |
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> I am now thinking of converting my desktop over to Gentoo as well, and |
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> was wondering whether what I did above on the server was wise or not. |
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> I will be using the server as the portage provider for my desktop too. |
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> Otherwise, what is the recommended space to have available for the |
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> portage tree in /usr/portage so I can have root as an appropriately |
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> sized partition? |
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I believe that sharing portage between computers is wise whenever the |
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client is guaranteed to have access to the tree when new programs are |
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required. In other words, it works great for desktops. The |
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configuration might come back to haunt you if you are off your own |
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network and need to install a new program on your laptop. |
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