Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mike Kazantsev <mike_kazantsev@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:20:49
Message-Id: 20090325231719.18fa7f13@coercion
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles by laurent
1 On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:33:58 +0100
2 laurent <laurent@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > > But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you decide
5 > > to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks?
6 > >
7 > Because I let my server host install it with their default disk layout.
8 > When I realise it looks pretty un-servish I had already installed http
9 > server with client website on it.
10 > The simplest for me was to move folders because I did not find any 'how
11 > to' that say it would be simple de repartition with keeping your data on.
12
13 It should be pretty easy to rsync /home to some other (temporary)
14 place, 'pvcreate /dev/home-whatever' and lvcreate, say, a
15 separate vol for portage (with it's ever-growing tree/distfiles) and
16 for /home, leaving plenty of space to play with, should you need it
17 either on these partitions or to create others.
18
19 Well, LVM is just what I mean ;)
20
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22 Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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