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 1EKcKA-0001wV-Ts for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:50:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8SDg1ba002142; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:42:01 GMT Received: from um2.unlimitedmail.net (pooladsl-b-16-58.ipcom.comunitel.net [212.145.239.58]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8SDXrcC022960 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:33:54 GMT Received: from ppp.zz ([137.204.208.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by um2.unlimitedmail.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8SDej2l016326 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:40:46 +0200 From: Etaoin Shrdlu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:52:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <87oe6d5q8s.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: 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: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509281552.17882.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-From: shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org X-Archives-Salt: 6f02a7e7-d2a0-4f55-8225-d64595f2c893 X-Archives-Hash: 93055306b1d5943782a9529ff2bbc5c3 On Wednesday 28 September 2005 14:43, glumtail wrote: > You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/ > Those files can be downloaded again when emerge. Also, the block size of the file system in which /usr/portage lives can make a big difference. Try a clean /usr/portage on an ext2/3 filesystem vs. a /usr/portage on reiserfs and you'll see what I mean. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list