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 1Hm3Ej-0007j0-Gy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 07:38:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4A7bZB0004950; Thu, 10 May 2007 07:37:35 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 l4A7U5eP027339 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 07:30:06 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FBD98342F for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 09:39:40 +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 6BFDondq73u0 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 09:39:31 +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 E737C8341D for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 09:39:31 +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 09:31:46 +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 09:31:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <49bf44f10705081656s776f28f5kbe497a5326107c2f@mail.gmail.com> <200705091549.45764.bulliver@badcomputer.org> <20070510000608.319c2326@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070510000608.319c2326@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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: <200705100931.42813.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 May 2007 07:31:46.0546 (UTC) FILETIME=[43BC6D20:01C792D5] X-Archives-Salt: 882b7c7c-5e9d-41bd-ac44-adefce5d788f X-Archives-Hash: 065bfd7d951b2a7e7b45926b73405577 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list