Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

[Sean Reiser <sean@seanreiser.com>]

> On 8/8/05, *Sean Reiser* <sean@seanreiser.com 
> <mailto:sean@seanreiser.com>> wrote:
>
>     mmhmm... the webcam / video-conference stuff is not something I have
>     much expirience with either, sorry to say.  As far as the other
>     software
>     is concerned I would look at the crossover office fork of wine
>     (assuming
>     that wine itself won't run it) or maybe some virtualization software
>     such as vmare.
>
>
> Yes, that might be the best I can do now.
> I been looking for VMWare and Wine and from what I read, I prefer 
> Wine, but does it run everything, most of it or almost nothing?

heh... that's exactly right. :) .... It really depends on who you are 
and what you are doing.  I think I mentioned that I'm using the 
codeweaver crossover office port (http://www.codeweavers.com/).  Take a 
look both the wine site and their site to see if the applications you 
are looking to run will run.

> I read it is must harder to install/configure, but I'll give it a try. 
> Or is there anyone to convince me that VMWare is better?

They are entirely different products (I use both).  WINE is an api layer 
where VMWareis a true VM.  You'll get better better compatibility at the 
cost of RAM and performance.  I tend to use VMWare for a testing 
environment and WINE for running applications. 

> I'll erase my windows partition and merge it with gentoo's one. I'll 
> end up with ~15Gb for gentoo... which seems to be fairly acceptable. 
> In a future stage, I might convert my "share" partition from FAT32 to 
> a linux like. By the way, I use reiserfs on my gentoo's partition. 
> Will I have problems to resize it?

Even though reiserfs lets you do it I wouldn't resize the volume with it 
mounted (seems far too risky for my gut).  As I mentioned I would do a 
backup first (can't stress that enough).  Any time I've done this type 
of work I have booted from a live CD, backed up (and verified), scrogged 
and repartitioned, and then restored. 

FileSystem Caveat:  Although my last name is Reiser, I am not related or 
associated with reiserfs (or to Hans himself). Do not believe that I 
know more about reiserfs based on the strength of my last name.

>     >     3) Convert hda5 to ext3|reiserfs|jfs|mature non-fat fs of
>     >     choice.  Mount
>     >     it as /home.
>     >
>     >
>     > The reason it is FAT32 is to windows be able to access it. With
>     > windows away, I could do that.
>
>     Right.  Keep in mind that with VMWare you can mount your linux home
>     directory as a SMB share.
>
>     Another advantage of a seperate  /home is that you can reinstall
>     the OS
>     without effecting your important personal data and settings.   I
>     realize
>     on your current system /mnt/share really handled some of that but
>     thought I'd mention it as well.
>
>
> Yes, that was the main reason to have my personal files on other 
> partition.
> As I said, converting this partition will be the next step after 
> removing windows and installing wine.

Sounds like a good direction.

Good Luck.

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