From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SEFq5-0007kp-Ty for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 08:08:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82759E0D42; Sun, 1 Apr 2012 08:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DCEEE0CCB for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2012 08:07:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.204] (127.151.222.87.dynamic.jazztel.es [87.222.151.127]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pacho) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DECA71B4006 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2012 08:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook From: Pacho Ramos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20120331232508.GA18617@waltdnes.org> References: <20337.28987.736877.961717@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20120327154239.GA17394@gentoo.org> <1332870540.18466.9.camel@belkin4> <20120327180158.GA1468@siphos.be> <1332873243.11827.15.camel@rook> <20120327200532.GA15040@thinkpad.rutgers.edu> <1333094778.1407.9.camel@belkin4> <20120331084402.GA23183@gentoo.org> <1333200867.29219.2.camel@belkin4> <4F77421A.9030306@gentoo.org> <20120331232508.GA18617@waltdnes.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-IGBvcuhZ6bC4X9ICzJKf" Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:06:55 +0200 Message-ID: <1333267615.4205.0.camel@belkin4> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 X-Archives-Salt: 7858d0d0-3163-4f31-b2d5-4dc34fd04f39 X-Archives-Hash: b1e8f570a63625904a29695c47f5333c --=-IGBvcuhZ6bC4X9ICzJKf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable El s=C3=A1b, 31-03-2012 a las 19:25 -0400, Walter Dnes escribi=C3=B3: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote > > On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's = the > > > one I use and I know, about other alternatives like using squashfs, l= oop > > > mount... I cannot promise anything as I simply don't know how to set > > > them. > >=20 > > Squashfs is really simple to use: > >=20 > > mksquashfs /usr/portage portage.squashfs > > mount -o loop portage.squashfs /usr/portage >=20 > Don't the "space-saving filesystems" (squashfs, reiserfs-with-tail, > etc) run more slowly due to their extra finicky steps to save space? If > you really want to save a gigabyte or 2, run "eclean -d distfiles" and > "localepurge" after every emerge update. I've also cobbled together my > own "autodepclean" script that check for, and optionally unmerges > unneeded stuff that was pulled in as a dependancy of a package that has > since been removed. >=20 I have distfiles on a completely different dir and, using different partition for ages for portage tree hasn't show that space saving problems --=-IGBvcuhZ6bC4X9ICzJKf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk94DJ8ACgkQCaWpQKGI+9RDaACfVKXsuvfQ3JVBqliRDlQ6q+Vm iAMAn3lp2FBAjzQo85tu4vWbVT7GFoCx =YEal -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-IGBvcuhZ6bC4X9ICzJKf--