Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo disk space
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:14:27
Message-Id: 20060809100938.54139bc1@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo disk space by Richard Fish
1 On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 00:35:49 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
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3 > You may also consider moving /usr/portage/distfiles and
4 > /usr/portage/packages to another filesystem where you have more room.
5 > Again, "man make.conf", and look for the DISTDIR and PKGDIR options.
6 > On my system, the filesystem that contains /usr/portage is only 1G in
7 > size!
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9 You can also put /usr/portage on a filesystem on a sparse file, which
10 takes up less than 300MB here and increases speed.
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12 http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage#MultiPurpose_Trick
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 If you think that there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.

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