From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LmXia-0008BY-Do for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:20:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB4E8E04E2; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:20:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.fraggod.net (unknown [91.191.238.58]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C89E04E2 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:20:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from coercion (coercion.core [IPv6:2001:470:1f0b:11de::13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.fraggod.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6253C102489 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:20:45 +0500 (YEKT) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:17:19 +0500 From: Mike Kazantsev To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles Message-ID: <20090325231719.18fa7f13@coercion> In-Reply-To: <49CA24B6.3030909@logiquefloue.org> References: <49C952AE.40904@logiquefloue.org> <200903250859.31339.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <49CA1D96.9060207@logiquefloue.org> <200903251422.09530.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <49CA24B6.3030909@logiquefloue.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/S5Od88wrSDiNG=qfEvMe5.I"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 0a8ab3c4-9346-421a-8227-5935faffb69b X-Archives-Hash: 7c59e5ae48e36b8ac4da8aa2a15b8bfe --Sig_/S5Od88wrSDiNG=qfEvMe5.I Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:33:58 +0100 laurent wrote: > > But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you d= ecide=20 > > to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks? > > > Because I let my server host install it with their default disk layout.=20 > When I realise it looks pretty un-servish I had already installed http=20 > server with client website on it. > The simplest for me was to move folders because I did not find any 'how=20 > to' that say it would be simple de repartition with keeping your data on. It should be pretty easy to rsync /home to some other (temporary) place, 'pvcreate /dev/home-whatever' and lvcreate, say, a separate vol for portage (with it's ever-growing tree/distfiles) and for /home, leaving plenty of space to play with, should you need it either on these partitions or to create others. Well, LVM is just what I mean ;) --=20 Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net --Sig_/S5Od88wrSDiNG=qfEvMe5.I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknKdTMACgkQASbOZpzyXnHAHwCeO8o3sOxqOUggJ/CI2sqtJQrz C5MAoMJ7LMPQDJcdC8GM9JB3ub8qwdXQ =sxh6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/S5Od88wrSDiNG=qfEvMe5.I--