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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:52:22
Message-Id: 20111125195100.GB15033@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...? by Mark Knecht
1 On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:17:07AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote
2 > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
3 > <SNIP>
4 > >> /mnt/distfiles ext3/4 (shared via nfs)
5 > >>
6 > >
7 > > Why do you separate the distfiles from the portage tree?
8 > >
9 > > Rgds,
10 >
11 > distfiles has a tendency to grow large over the years. IIRC nothing
12 > cleans it up automatically so having it separate is just a simple
13 > safety mechanism to not run out of disk space after emerge -fDuN
14 > @world, etc.
15
16 man eclean
17 http://gpio.ca/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+eclean
18
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20 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>

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