From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2YwR-0000pu-Qg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:35:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j79IWjIV020029; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:32:45 GMT Received: from psyche.seanreiser.com (psyche.seanreiser.com [204.225.94.97]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j79IP8u6028665 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:25:08 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [65.209.94.69]) by psyche.seanreiser.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2526614C0AD for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:26:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42F8F520.3060105@seanreiser.com> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:25:36 -0400 From: Sean Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage References: <62c482fd.82fd62c4@planet.nl> <42F73860.6090305@seanreiser.com> <42F7AA76.4050308@seanreiser.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 84f1eb5b-24fe-4e39-8201-7935905ea7a0 X-Archives-Hash: 7539c585021dd4a5219605a0ff1979ce > On 8/8/05, *Sean Reiser* > 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. -- spr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list