From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions - last questions...
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:59:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130423185932.1779e970@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5176B81E.8000805@binarywings.net>
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:34:38 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> > So - first, is 5G way too big for the two /tmp dirs? I have lots of
> > space, but hate waste
> >
>
> If you worry about waste consider bind-mounting both from the same
> partition and install quotas to avoid one filling up the other.
Or set PORTAGE_TMPDIR to use /tmp. Then /var/tmp will be so small you
can leave it as a sub-directory of /var.
If this is a server, 5G is fine for this, but for a desktop it may need
to be bigger, to accommodate LibreOffice builds.
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-23 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-23 14:44 [gentoo-user] Partitions - last questions Tanstaafl
2013-04-23 16:34 ` Florian Philipp
2013-04-23 17:59 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2013-04-24 10:48 ` Tanstaafl
2013-04-24 12:48 ` Florian Philipp
2013-04-24 15:12 ` Tanstaafl
2013-04-24 15:31 ` Florian Philipp
2013-04-24 16:12 ` Tanstaafl
2013-04-28 8:44 ` Florian Philipp
2013-04-24 15:39 ` Tanstaafl
2013-04-24 16:23 ` Michael Mol
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