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Hi Neil, |
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On 8/8/05, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:00:49 +0100, Michael Kintzios wrote: |
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> > Well, it has been practical enough for *my* needs. For a while I was |
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> > running Gentoo on a small partition and having run aground on a couple |
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> > of cases with a seized system during some mammoth emerge, I decided to |
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> > set up a separate /usr partition. |
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> You don't need to add partitions, because portage isn't hard coded to use |
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> any particular partitions. If you run out of space during emerges, you |
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> only have to change $PORTAGE_TMPDIR to somewhere with more space |
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> than /var. Equally, you can change $DISTDIR to reduce the amount of space |
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> used in /usr/portage, you could even change it to a FAT32 partition of |
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> your Windows installation has more free space than Gentoo. |
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So I can point them both to the FAT32 partition and get 1Gb back (when not |
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emerging) to gentoo's system.. that's interesting! That could help me until |
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I find a real solution to the mess on my pc... :) |
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