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Hi, Dale and everybody else! |
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:23:59AM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> Just in case you are talking about editing the files in profiles, that |
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> won't work long term. Keep in mind that each time you run emerge |
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> --sync those files will be overwritten. It is not a good idea to edit |
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> anything in /usr/portage since it will update when you sync again. |
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> If you want to enable/disable features in the profiles, do that in |
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> make.conf instead. |
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DONE. It worked too, after fixing another problem (see below). |
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> That is where you put in your final wishes. Example: cups is enabled |
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> as a USE flag in the profile and you do not want cups enabled. Put |
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> -cups in your make.conf and it should be disabled. The reverse is also |
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> true. If you want cups but it is disabled in the profile, you can add |
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> cups to your USE line in make.conf and it will be enabled. |
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> Hope that helps. |
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It helped a great deal, thanks! |
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With about 9 packages to go, I started getting disk full messages, even |
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though my (sole) partition had well over 1Gb free. It turns out I'd ran |
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out of inodes. Curious. But the only "application" which has any data |
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at all yet is portage. ;-) |
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I haven't looked in detail where all these little files are - I suspect |
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they're largely under /var - but dumpe2fs /dev/hdh5 gave: |
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Inode count: 250976 <======= |
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Block count: 1002046 |
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Reserved block count: 50102 |
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Free blocks: 354807 |
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Free inodes: 58 <======= |
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First block: 0 |
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Block size: 4096 |
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Fragment size: 4096 |
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It seems I have 250,918 files in ~650,000 blocks. That's a _lot_ of |
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files, most of them flea sized. |
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So I formatted another ext3 partitions, with 2048 byte blocks and |
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~1,000,000 inodes, copied all the files across, rebooted into Gentoo and |
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I was able to finish intalling xfce4. It's nice! I need to get firefox |
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now, and I'll probably let that run overnight. ;-) |
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Comparing the two partions with df immediately after the bulk copy, I got |
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this: |
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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on |
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/dev/hdh5 3945128 2525880 1218840 68% /mnt/hdh5 <== Old |
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/dev/hdh10 3882172 2069020 1612744 57% /mnt/hdh10 <== New |
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Maybe 1024 byte blocks would have been even better. Or would it be a |
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good idea to format the partition-with-all-the-little-files with Reiser. |
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Does Reiserfs have static limits on numbers of files? It's supposed to |
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be very good at handling lots of midget files. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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