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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: pandu@poluan.info
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:59:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313085938.5b359cfd@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2qdGXRR0MEQ6WG3vKyskyeMwcXo0JjEuKnTX8wBMPYHgg9pQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:04:00 +0700
Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:

> I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories
> under /usr, e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living
> somewhere else, on different partition and different filesystem.
> Let's say something mounted on /mnt/Persistent.
> 
> My question: should I use bindmount or symlinks to do that? What's the
> drawbacks/benefits for either?
> 
> Rgds,

You should do neither as they do not give you split storage, they
both give you the same thing in two different places.

Create two new filesystems and mount them.

I personally use /var/portage as there is no good reason for it to be
under /usr where it is just clutter.

Code goes in /usr
Data goes in /var

You have to change PORTDIR in /etc/make.conf for this to work as well
as /etc/make.profile. Nothing breaks without it, you just get errors
from portage


-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com




  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-13  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-13  5:04 [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink? Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13  5:11 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13  5:39   ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13  5:45     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13  6:59 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-03-13  8:05   ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13  8:15     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13  8:52       ` Philipp Riegger
2012-03-13  9:00       ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13  9:12         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13 10:35           ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-03-13 11:38         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-13 10:58     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-13 18:06 ` Walter Dnes

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