From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 19:45:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811051945.11153.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811051726.35949.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 18:26:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > * Use 'qsize' from app-portage/portage-utils to find out package sizes.
> > * Use 'du -sm /* /*/* | sort -n' to take a first peak at how files are
> > distributed on your disk.
>
> and don't forget that du is lying - a lot.
No it doesn't, du is very exact.
It's just exact in ways the user seldom expects it be exact in. Especially
when they have the block size wrong, or don't understand SI units (that's OK,
nobody understands SI units) or include symlinks, or don't grok sparse
files...
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-05 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-05 7:20 [gentoo-user] Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
2008-11-05 7:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-05 8:29 ` Daniel Troeder
2008-11-05 16:26 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-11-05 17:45 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-11-05 18:39 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-11-05 21:40 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-05 22:55 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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