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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:20:37 -0200
From: "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com>
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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).
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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