From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L5Z5T-0003ZV-LR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:06:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B06BBE0374; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.144]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C72FE0374 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so323994eyk.10 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:06:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=3e/nmAynvqlT6Jl4Ayo10NMkGgPtHE0+TywvyR7o6sY=; b=DQCmxltyGFTomsY+QzvVnASUpNWLPOuGzDyDfToJk8Q0ZjMCiOgVyDPdk+GkDB/L1G N/knezRfZf6oLbqOfhzlzdYAJcHNwb0Jym7LT1S8mRq6LfuZIUAbVzhudP5qzsNSJRn8 q9p7gyFphKK7rjccraTEtKEggTQ0/RL7wTfvQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=sFmh9re4Ry6yfHyz1V34amZK7ZUdkGFNZL6EEaVaMfdtPWONdDhiJ1pUD1yrNDWmOc 1VbZyUqr/GsbApUIm2nHUw5t4QK17mE5vXdOcgS2A5mSuFCHQr3peENKA9nEBkaZILsq xuSDyS9Z+ypVsqAuXbS8+011bVdYqDOvPHpN4= Received: by 10.210.119.16 with SMTP id r16mr1666550ebc.127.1227762401822; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:06:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.34.20 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:06:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38af3d670811262106m1d1c6cd8w58dbb9aad4147289@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:06:41 -0200 From: "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" Sender: jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual booting 2 gentoo installations In-Reply-To: <200811250051.48155.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <87zljovnrd.fsf@newsguy.com> <200811242334.15994.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <87bpw4vkg5.fsf@newsguy.com> <200811250051.48155.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1d1cca10be36c391 X-Archives-Salt: 07fc2da7-c32c-4be8-9a36-627271e25b8c X-Archives-Hash: 16e2ddc1c6ddb85bc05fbe51f1e6e647 > 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. Another reason for having a different partition is that I can easily backup my other personal data to it when I have to format the root partition.