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On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote: |
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>> -----Original Message----- |
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>> From: Tero Grundstrm [mailto:tero@××××××××××××.fi] |
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>> Sent: 08 August 2005 08:46 |
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>> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage |
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>> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: |
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>> It is up to you how to rearrange them but I suggest that you |
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>> have only |
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>> these partitions for Gentoo: |
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>> /boot |
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>> / |
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>> /home (optional but recommended) |
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>> (+swap) |
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> You could have a separate /usr or /usr/portage partition so that when/if |
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> it runs out of space, your system continues to run despite the emerge |
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> coming to a halt. |
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I don't don't know if this is very practical, atleast without a volume |
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manager. |
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Besides, isn't this taken care of by the filesystem already? I know that |
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ext2/3 preserve a persentage of the partition size for root especially for |
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these cases. |
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T.G. |
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