From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISgpp-0001JB-RA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:25:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l84MHmbi009776; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 22:17:48 GMT Received: from mailout1.igs.net (mailout1.igs.net [216.58.97.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l84MDHp8004987 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 22:13:17 GMT Received: from waltdnes.org (i209-195-93-235.cia.com [209.195.93.235]) by mailout1.igs.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C5B0F6709 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:00:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:16:41 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:16:41 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM* Message-ID: <20070904221641.GB17498@waltdnes.org> References: <20070902143233.GA9496@waltdnes.org> <200709041045.15256.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <200709041219.29325.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200709041219.29325.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: f35c056e-d657-406b-96af-52597f1fa181 X-Archives-Hash: 7cd41b8e6519067261989b80eab606b0 On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:19:29PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Remy Blank wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > What you can't do, and to my knowledge no regular fs can do, is to > > > *reduce* a mounted partition > > > > But who would want to do that? I always need *more* space, not less > > ;-) > > emerged openoffice lately? :-) > > It pretty much always fails if you have <5G in /var/tmp/portage. On a > laptop, that's 8% of my total disk space just sitting there free > waiting for the day I emerge openoffice again. Umounting /var to reduce > it is such a huge pita that I made /var/tmp/portage a separate volume > and now reduce it at will. Drifting back onto the thread topic (is that allowed here?) having /var use part of a common pool (what's left over after swap and a 500 meg / partition) avoids that problem altogether, rather than band-aiding it. -- Walter Dnes In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list