Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual booting 2 gentoo installations

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 27 November 2008 07:20:37 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
>
> <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I take it you've already observed that you can also share portage and
> >> distfiles directories? Easiest is if they are on their own partitions
> >> but there are tricks that can get the same effect if not. How to do this
> >> is left as an exercise for the reader :-) with one tip for those who
> >> don't know:
> >>
> >> mount -o bind
> >> --
> >> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
> >
> > I know about mount -o bind.
> > However, (forgive me if this is naive), why not just a symlink? That
> > is the way I do.
> > I want my root partition to be small (for performance reasons), so I
> > put things that don't need speed int its own partion, which I mount in
> > /usr/local/slowpart (the name fits; the partition is at the end of the
> > harddisk and 80% full, so it is slower than the root partion, that is
> > at the beginning of the hard disk and 7% full.
> > In this slowpart, I have DISTDIR, PKGDIR, and some personal files that
> > are not frequently accessed (such as files I will likely never use but
> > kept for safety). I configure DISTDIR and PKGDIR in make.conf, but the
> > personal files are linked to my home via symbolic links.
>


> I guess the advantage of bind-mount is having all of it configured in
> fstab, as instead of having many symlinks.
> (forgive me it this is naive).

I wouldn't call it naive. Sometimes the simple solution is the best one, 
sometimes you need something more complex. So whether to use symlinks or a 
bind mount depends on circumstance.

>
> And there is all that --move, --make-shared, --make-slave,
> --make-private, --make-unbindable stuff, but that seems overkill for a
> desktop user.



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