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Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> Too big a thing for A. There is a reason why it doesn't have its own portage |
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> tree. ;-) |
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> Uwe |
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You could also loopback mount a file just for portage, which shrinks the |
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needed space down considerably. I use reiserfs with tail packing to fit |
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the whole tree onto a 260 megabyte file. |
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On a test directory in an ext3 partition.. |
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du -h portagetest |
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561M portagetest |
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Actual portage setup... |
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df -h |
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/root/portage.img 260M 248M 13M 96% /usr/portage |
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ls -lha /root/portage.img |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 260M 2007-11-09 20:03 /root/portage.img |
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/etc/fstab entry... |
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/root/portage.img /usr/portage auto loop,noatime,nodev 0 2 |
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Down to almost half is pretty darn good in my book. Of course, packages |
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and distfiles are kept elsewhere. All my systems are different chosts, |
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so no sharing packages; and I use http-replicator, so no need for |
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distfiles saved on every machine. |
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PaulNM |
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