From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KSqjs-00079N-4G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:04:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AF6EE05CF; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:04:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1683EE05CF for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:04:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188E2DEE3F for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:04:28 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uCB2udQ1Uujx for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:34:42 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.ethnet (78-32-181-186.no-dns-yet.enta.net [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF38DECA5 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:04:27 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Symlinks vs. Bind mounts. Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:04:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <48A1034E.5030109@gmail.com> <48A15670.1060605@pp.dyndns.biz> In-Reply-To: <48A15670.1060605@pp.dyndns.biz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808121104.13155.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 68643068-a2c0-42e8-9706-dff0f2c68b59 X-Archives-Hash: f61d7592e449969fd0b788bceee8fcaf On Tuesday 12 August 2008 10:22:56 Morgan Wesstr=F6m wrote: > If I understand [...] correctly, I wouldn't be able to compile Open Office > on tmpfs with my 2GB RAM and 1GB swap. I would have to increase the swap > space to be able to hold all the temporary files from the compilation, > wouldn't I? Yes. In fact, the OOo installation process checks for sufficient space=20 before it starts, both RAM and swap, and stops if it thinks you haven't=20 enough. You could always allocate another swap partition. One of my boxes has 4 2GB= =20 partitions on different disks, though that's far more than I need. =2D-=20 Rgds Peter