Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:23:30 +0000, Fernando Meira wrote:

> > You don't need to add partitions, because portage isn't hard coded to
> > use any particular partitions. If you run out of space during
> > emerges, you only have to change $PORTAGE_TMPDIR to somewhere with
> > more space than /var. Equally, you can change $DISTDIR to reduce the
> > amount of space used in /usr/portage, you could even change it to a
> > FAT32 partition of your Windows installation has more free space than
> > Gentoo.

> So I can point them both to the FAT32 partition and get 1Gb back (when
> not emerging) to gentoo's system.. that's interesting! That could help
> me until I find a real solution to the mess on my pc... :)

I'm not sure whether $PORTAGE_TMPDIR would work on a FAT32 partition,
because of the lack of permissions.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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