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From: Hal Martin <hal.martin@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:48:35
Message-Id: 47E04635.30307@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64 by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:20:39 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too
6 >> small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on
7 >> LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually symlink
8 >> that to somewhere else.
9 >>
10 >
11 > You could set $CCACHE_DIR, which seems less kludgy to me.
12 >
13 >
14 >
15 >> But why is /lib/modules larger than 300 MB?
16 >>
17 >
18 > Because you have built your kernel with CONFIG_KITCHENSINK=m?
19 >
20 > % du -h /lib/modules/$(uname -r)
21 > 9.9M /lib/modules/2.6.24-tuxonice-r3
22 >
23 $ du -h /lib/modules/$(uname -r)
24 19M /lib/modules/2.6.23-gentoo-r6
25 > Hmmm, it's 22MB on my desktop, time to start pruning .config.
26 >
27 > % df -h /
28 > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
29 > /dev/sda5 reiserfs 385M 189M 196M 50% /
30 >
31 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
32 /dev/sda1 9.9G 8.1G 1.3G 87% /
33
34 That includes everything except /home.
35 > That includes /boot with two kernels.
36 >
37 >
38 >
39 I haven't run into any significant problems with x86_64. To use flash
40 and shockwave I just use wine and the windows version of Firefox, it
41 works perfectly for me. Everything else I've tried either works, or has
42 a suitable alternative that I don't mind using, but this rarely happens.
43
44 -Hal
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