Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

[Mick]

On Saturday 27 January 2007 13:16, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My distfiles is getting quite big and I was thinking of symlinking it
> to another partition (just as a temporary solution until I find the
> time to re-partition my hard drive). I know I could just delete what I
> don't use, but I hope to keep them until the planned reinstall of
> Gentoo, so that I can use at least part of the 1.1 GiB (my bandwith is
> limited).
>
> Can symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles (and even /usr/tmp/portage) to
> directories on another ext2 partition hurt Portage? Are there any
> common pitfalls to this procedure? Are the rights on these directories
> preserved at the next mount or do I also have to edit fstab?

Do you know that you can use eclean to remove obsolete/older versions of 
source files from your /usr/portage/distfiles directory?  Alternatively, you 
can just select and rm some of these manually to save some space. 
-- 
Regards,
Mick