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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto |
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<please.no.spam.here@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I take it you've already observed that you can also share portage and |
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>> distfiles directories? Easiest is if they are on their own partitions but |
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>> there are tricks that can get the same effect if not. How to do this is left |
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>> as an exercise for the reader :-) with one tip for those who don't know: |
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>> |
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>> mount -o bind |
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>> -- |
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>> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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> I know about mount -o bind. |
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> However, (forgive me if this is naive), why not just a symlink? That |
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> is the way I do. |
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> I want my root partition to be small (for performance reasons), so I |
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> put things that don't need speed int its own partion, which I mount in |
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> /usr/local/slowpart (the name fits; the partition is at the end of the |
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> harddisk and 80% full, so it is slower than the root partion, that is |
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> at the beginning of the hard disk and 7% full. |
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> In this slowpart, I have DISTDIR, PKGDIR, and some personal files that |
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> are not frequently accessed (such as files I will likely never use but |
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> kept for safety). I configure DISTDIR and PKGDIR in make.conf, but the |
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> personal files are linked to my home via symbolic links. |
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I guess the advantage of bind-mount is having all of it configured in |
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fstab, as instead of having many symlinks. |
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(forgive me it this is naive). |
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And there is all that --move, --make-shared, --make-slave, |
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--make-private, --make-unbindable stuff, but that seems overkill for a |
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desktop user. |
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