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Vlad Dogaru wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> My distfiles is getting quite big and I was thinking of symlinking it |
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> to another partition (just as a temporary solution until I find the |
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> time to re-partition my hard drive). I know I could just delete what I |
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> don't use, but I hope to keep them until the planned reinstall of |
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> Gentoo, so that I can use at least part of the 1.1 GiB (my bandwith is |
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> limited). |
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> Can symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles (and even /usr/tmp/portage) to |
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> directories on another ext2 partition hurt Portage? Are there any |
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> common pitfalls to this procedure? Are the rights on these directories |
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> preserved at the next mount or do I also have to edit fstab? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Vlad |
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You can change the path to distfiles in make.conf and then move it there. |
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You do know about eclean I assume? It will remove some of the tarballs |
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that are no longer needed and give you some space back. |
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Hope that helps. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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