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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Compiling first and then installing using -K
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:06:54
Message-Id: r2hcjv$2llt$1@ciao.gmane.io
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compiling first and then installing using -K by Mark Knecht
1 On 18/02/2020 02:01, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 >
3 > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 4:32 PM Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com
4 > > I just tested it in a throw-away Ubuntu VM running on ext4. It crashed
5 > > and burned due to disk space. It tried to duplicate the whole "/" with
6 > > zero error checks. So free space reached 0 but it still didn't abort. I
7 > > had to abort with ctrl+c. Free space was then 200MB (out of 20GB). I did
8 > > "du -sh /*" to find where all the GBs went, but it doesn't find it.
9 > >
10 > > So... yeah. Not very convincing implementation. Don't try it at home,
11 > > kids :-P
12 >
13 > Ouch!
14
15 It gets worse. The container reconfigured the keyboard shortcuts on the
16 host! After booting a container, alt+Fn or alt+left/right on the host
17 started switching to the linux text-mode console. I pressed alt+f2 to
18 bring up the plasma search, I ended up on TTY2... ha ha.
19
20 Remember how I said I'll use nspawn from now on? I take that back. Let's
21 just say this thing is not even remotely production ready.

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