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 1E2D96-000276-9G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:18:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j78JH9Eh023259; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:17:09 GMT Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk (heisenberg.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j78JA4DF016963 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:10:04 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by heisenberg.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E2D10-0002zH-5z for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:10:26 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7191405F4E for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:10:23 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:10:19 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage Message-ID: <20050808201019.1d14d919@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20050808141320.0de22bf8@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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_20_10_19_+0100_K27kh0cjT5BxOX/g"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: df38b4fc-5f1c-4b22-96ae-39e9391b8314 X-Archives-Hash: addd2535564be626dee18ad10dd4c876 --Signature_Mon__8_Aug_2005_20_10_19_+0100_K27kh0cjT5BxOX/g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick -Come, come, why they couldn't hit an elephant from this dist- --Signature_Mon__8_Aug_2005_20_10_19_+0100_K27kh0cjT5BxOX/g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC964eum4al0N1GQMRAikfAKCTKpgYM+811Y9ITlsHMuD3oYLNKwCfViEF ougitV27JhH1vAEVtkviYgU= =wOLF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Mon__8_Aug_2005_20_10_19_+0100_K27kh0cjT5BxOX/g-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list