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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hm3Co-0002Yb-0T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 07:36:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4A7Yg0E001227; Thu, 10 May 2007 07:34:42 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4A7QWa1021929 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 07:26:33 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EFCB8341D for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 09:36:07 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1gdJXQiwwMHq for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 09:36:00 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3B283431 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 09:35:51 +0200 (SAST) Received: from sanet.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.63]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 10 May 2007 09:28:05 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off] Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:28:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <49bf44f10705081656s776f28f5kbe497a5326107c2f@mail.gmail.com> <200705091549.45764.bulliver@badcomputer.org> <200705100101.37330.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> In-Reply-To: <200705100101.37330.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> 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: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705100928.00855.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 May 2007 07:28:05.0687 (UTC) FILETIME=[C0180470:01C792D4] X-Archives-Salt: e05f852f-13ae-4a63-a245-f2f2818e5226 X-Archives-Hash: 322aa8ad302aa30c0c06950e99e9dd51 On Thursday 10 May 2007, Bo =D8rsted Andresen wrote: > On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:49:45 darren kirby wrote: > > I do have a separate /usr, but do not mount it readonly, as I > > --sync enough to make remounting it daily rather annoying. > > Congratulations! You've just explained why PORTDIR defaulting to > /usr/portage is stupid. The logical location for the tree would be on > /var ... :) You are perfectly correct. That's why I have: alan@nazgul ~ $ mount | grep /var /dev/mapper/vg-var on /var type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail) /dev/mapper/vg-portage on /var/portage type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/mapper/vg-distfiles on /var/distfiles type reiserfs=20 (rw,noatime,notail) Note that distfiles is not a sub-dir of portage either =2D-=20 Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list