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From: Tero Grundstrm <tero@××××××××××××.fi>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:56:01
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.63.0508081236170.23712@vuosaari.hai.fi
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage by Neil Bothwick
1 On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:45:36 +0300 (EEST), Tero Grundstr_m wrote:
4 >
5 >>> udev 252M 808K 252M 1% /dev
6 >> ^^ Why a separate partition for /dev? This is complete waste.
7 >> Especially with that size.
8 >
9 > udev is a virtual filesystem, it's using 808K of memory, not 252M of disk
10 > space. udev appears to allocate half the available RAM as the maximum size
11 > for /dev.
12
13 Your right. It's correct. Maybe I got distracted because of the 23Gb
14 /mnt/share partition and spoke too early...
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