From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E243Z-00082k-Vh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:36:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j789ZLxR027551; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:35:21 GMT Received: from rutherford.zen.co.uk (rutherford.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.142]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j789UVGD021467 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:30:32 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by rutherford.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E23y5-0007mE-AQ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:30:49 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E7F1405F4E for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:30:46 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:30:46 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage Message-ID: <20050808103046.59673012@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <62c482fd.82fd62c4@planet.nl> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Mon__8_Aug_2005_10_30_46_+0100_sZcVLqS1wt91Kpt="; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Rutherford-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 8eff6eac-fb88-492e-a2da-2be152166bbf X-Archives-Hash: b72f52cfb2322b04a7d242ffc34a62f6 --Signature_Mon__8_Aug_2005_10_30_46_+0100_sZcVLqS1wt91Kpt= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:45:36 +0300 (EEST), Tero Grundstr_m wrote: > > udev 252M 808K 252M 1% /dev > ^^ Why a separate partition for /dev? This is complete waste. > Especially with that size. udev is a virtual filesystem, it's using 808K of memory, not 252M of disk space. udev appears to allocate half the available RAM as the maximum size for /dev. --=20 Neil Bothwick But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. -- Jerome K. Jerome --Signature_Mon__8_Aug_2005_10_30_46_+0100_sZcVLqS1wt91Kpt= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC9yZGum4al0N1GQMRAv2BAKDOKFW18fV/FdAZLbd69Ir1YgZUsgCgv/I1 Cw0H+K+QzXOnX12l4rHhEIg= =YRsl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Mon__8_Aug_2005_10_30_46_+0100_sZcVLqS1wt91Kpt=-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list