From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:31:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705100931.42813.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070510000608.319c2326@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 3) Better still,
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage#Make_A_Sparse_File_to_
>create_portage_in
I never understood why portage on a sparse file is beneficial. Mine is
on a small reiser logival volume mounted with option "tail". It's just
big enough to hold portage with 10-15% free space (the tree doesn't
expand that much over time).
Care to elabortae on the benfits you get doing it your way?
--
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-08 23:56 [gentoo-user] Clock is way off Grant
2007-05-09 5:28 ` AJ Spagnoletti
2007-05-09 6:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Anno v. Heimburg
2007-05-09 14:27 ` Grant
2007-05-09 14:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 15:45 ` Grant
2007-05-09 16:12 ` Redouane Boumghar
2007-05-09 17:05 ` Dale
2007-05-09 17:17 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-05-09 17:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 17:53 ` [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off] Benno Schulenberg
2007-05-09 18:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 18:29 ` Randy Barlow
2007-05-09 18:34 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-05-09 18:54 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-09 20:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 21:21 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-09 21:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 6:56 ` Naga
2007-05-10 8:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-09 21:22 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-09 21:52 ` Mick
2007-05-09 21:49 ` darren kirby
2007-05-09 23:01 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-09 23:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 2:16 ` Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
2007-05-10 7:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-05-09 23:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 0:31 ` darren kirby
2007-05-10 0:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 2:01 ` darren kirby
2007-05-10 7:31 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2007-05-10 8:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 8:41 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr Alexander Skwar
2007-05-10 9:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 10:11 ` Benno Schulenberg
2007-05-10 10:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-10 21:36 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-11 5:51 ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2007-05-09 18:54 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off Dale
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