[gentoo-doc] WIKI: /var/tmp/portage with tmpfs

["Javier Juan Martínez Cabezón" <tazok@rsbac.org>]

Hi all, I have one suggestion that could be useful for you and a better
approach:

I think it could be added  to this part of the wiki:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs


an controlled autofs tmpfs mounted on /var/tmp/portage:


Relevant files:

(based on https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AutoFS)


from my /etc/autofs/auto.master entry:


/-      /etc/autofs/autofs.vartmp



and from my /etc/autofs/autofs.vartmp:


/var/tmp/portage        -fstype=tmpfs,size=14G tmpfs	--timeout 300


with those lines in the mount command output you could see:


/etc/autofs/autofs.vartmp on /var/tmp/portage type autofs
(rw,relatime,fd=6,pgrp=31264,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)

and after accesing the directory:

tmpfs on /var/tmp/portage type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=14680064k)


At this way you could get a portage dir mounted just only when you need
it (emerging packages) and the RAM freed after use with the timeout.