Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 11:39:41
Message-Id: 1274096273.3101.76.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space! by Neil Bothwick
1 On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 09:07 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:21:50 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
3 >
4 > > Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my
5 > > ftp/pub directory. And looking in the rsync man page:
6 >
7 > Why not set $DISTDIR to the true location of distfiles instead of using
8 > bind mounts?
9
10 because /usr/portage/distfiles IS the real location,
11 and /home/ftp/pub/gentoo/distfiles is the ftp shared location. vsftpd
12 doesn't handle symlinks, so I have to bind it.
13
14 Now that you mention it though, I could move it for real
15 into /home/ftp/pub/gentoo/distfiles and change DISTDIR... hm.
16
17 --
18 Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
19
20 Real programmers don't bring brown-bag lunches. If the vending machine
21 doesn't sell it, they don't eat it. Vending machines don't sell quiche.