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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:15:05
Message-Id: 20080318221456.55a7b21e@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64 by Alex Schuster
1 On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:20:39 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
2
3 > Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too
4 > small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on
5 > LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually symlink
6 > that to somewhere else.
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8 You could set $CCACHE_DIR, which seems less kludgy to me.
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10
11 > But why is /lib/modules larger than 300 MB?
12
13 Because you have built your kernel with CONFIG_KITCHENSINK=m?
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15 % du -h /lib/modules/$(uname -r)
16 9.9M /lib/modules/2.6.24-tuxonice-r3
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18 Hmmm, it's 22MB on my desktop, time to start pruning .config.
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20 % df -h /
21 Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
22 /dev/sda5 reiserfs 385M 189M 196M 50% /
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24 That includes /boot with two kernels.
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27 --
28 Neil Bothwick
29
30 A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it
31 is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64 Hal Martin <hal.martin@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64 Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>