Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

[laurent <laurent@logiquefloue.org>]

Mike Kazantsev a écrit :
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:33:58 +0100
> laurent <laurent@logiquefloue.org> wrote:
>
>   
>>> But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you decide 
>>> to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks?
>>>
>>>       
>> Because I let my server host install it with their default disk layout. 
>> When I realise it looks pretty un-servish I had already installed http 
>> server with client website on it.
>> The simplest for me was to move folders because I did not find any 'how 
>> to' that say it would be simple de repartition with keeping your data on.
>>     
>
> It should be pretty easy to rsync /home to some other (temporary)
> place, 'pvcreate /dev/home-whatever' and lvcreate, say, a
> separate vol for portage (with it's ever-growing tree/distfiles) and
> for /home, leaving plenty of space to play with, should you need it
> either on these partitions or to create others.
>
> Well, LVM is just what I mean ;)
>
>   
LVM...hm nice new word to me. And rsync too, looks good. Ok I will have 
a look when I'm safer.
Got that emerge -v world to finish ;)

I read about a tool to color the etc-update difference, can't find it 
again, if you know about it ;)
thx
Laurent.