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 1L5ZIt-0006t1-SH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:20:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39449E0433; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:20:38 +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 ED968E0433 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so324726eyk.10 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:20:37 -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=5+MMWlJUgS0KAjD947IXU8d09OMIvR3UFVXaiLqJF1w=; b=jJl8dnu+iWXOo2hQt4O8l7CSO7oAMEqhorgnfE7sFzncCJTBbp3xp94PQtA2X7VItz K8jqM/vRHTxJknM4rnRGSYZigLjKCg4mHX7PnAJGyvb+y26Xvrqcxw5oqCiFOOf0e5Mn XRapIa84jzcZTvwcqxJyurOtpLPMSWWH9fwHg= 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=fVyCS3zKtLLH6htXXcIdPTE49pyEpTH0YvL4Ct7T3NuKZuYh4q0dI1IcwBEGCUwQqh yoXxwuJJmzhgwXhkABGfDnCZ+u2ymgq0eKC4N7l39aEYHFZJ3nfK5+vfbr84rVxEFMTE 9+W/Fr+/jtl37uHwhZeARBYqJ6Y9Hvl5Jfj/k= Received: by 10.210.41.1 with SMTP id o1mr6942835ebo.179.1227763237434; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:20:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.34.20 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:20:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38af3d670811262120p5a7797d6s755a8c32fd711fc3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:20:37 -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: <38af3d670811262106m1d1c6cd8w58dbb9aad4147289@mail.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> <38af3d670811262106m1d1c6cd8w58dbb9aad4147289@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3e27726c93bac321 X-Archives-Salt: 5600eac1-cd59-4f73-9597-af2dc18b7d1e X-Archives-Hash: 8b07894211796476302a563633409846 On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto 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. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds