From: PaulNM <gentoo@paulscrap.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and portage tree
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:48:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47357060.9070501@paulscrap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711091327.55270.uwix@iway.na>
Uwe Thiem wrote:
> Too big a thing for A. There is a reason why it doesn't have its own portage
> tree. ;-)
>
> Uwe
You could also loopback mount a file just for portage, which shrinks the
needed space down considerably. I use reiserfs with tail packing to fit
the whole tree onto a 260 megabyte file.
On a test directory in an ext3 partition..
du -h portagetest
561M portagetest
Actual portage setup...
df -h
/root/portage.img 260M 248M 13M 96% /usr/portage
ls -lha /root/portage.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 260M 2007-11-09 20:03 /root/portage.img
/etc/fstab entry...
/root/portage.img /usr/portage auto loop,noatime,nodev 0 2
Down to almost half is pretty darn good in my book. Of course, packages
and distfiles are kept elsewhere. All my systems are different chosts,
so no sharing packages; and I use http-replicator, so no need for
distfiles saved on every machine.
PaulNM
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 10:06 [gentoo-user] NFS and portage tree Uwe Thiem
2007-11-09 10:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-11-09 11:27 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-11-09 11:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-11-10 8:48 ` PaulNM [this message]
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