Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:08:01
Message-Id: 201011021919.05849.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking by Stroller
1 On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Stroller wrote:
2 > On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > ...
4 > > hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on the
5 > > same filesystem. Frequently, they are not.
6 >
7 > For small values of frequently.
8 >
9 > Stroller.
10
11 for every sane system out there.
12
13 /var is a candidate for surprisingly filling up / to 100% so it is a smart and
14 sane choice to put it on its own partition where damage will be reduced to
15 some log files or an aborted emerge.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking Gary Golden <mail@××××××××××.me>
Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>