From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:40:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070428114032.4ffa92d7@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070428095901.GA3742@ark.in-berlin.de>
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:59:01 +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote:
> > This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage
> > tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple
> > 100 (one-zero-zero) megs!
>
> OTOH, you may not need to switch to reiser for that.
> It may simply be a matter of giving /usr/portage its own
> partition and a smaller block size.
You would only save space like that if the partition was only just big
enough to hold the portage tree. With the amount of file churn in the
tree, the filesystem would get very fragmented very quickly.
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Neil Bothwick
I don't know what makes you tick but I wish it was a time bomb.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-28 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-26 14:59 [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage Grant
2007-04-26 15:16 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-04-26 15:16 ` Nelson, David J
2007-04-26 15:38 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-04-27 2:00 ` W.Kenworthy
[not found] ` <200704271212.49816.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
2007-04-28 1:09 ` William Kenworthy
2007-04-27 21:52 ` Grant
2007-04-26 17:45 ` fire-eyes
2007-04-26 18:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-26 21:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-04-26 22:58 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-03 20:17 ` Csányi András
2007-05-03 20:37 ` Pongracz Istvan
2007-05-04 2:02 ` waltdnes
2007-05-04 7:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-05-05 2:41 ` waltdnes
2007-05-07 9:52 ` Alan McKinnon
[not found] ` <20070428095901.GA3742@ark.in-berlin.de>
2007-04-28 10:40 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2007-04-28 15:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-05-04 7:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Florian Philipp
2007-05-08 2:18 ` Troy Curtis Jr
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2007-04-27 5:08 [gentoo-user] " Adam Carter
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