From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LmrdZ-0001Y5-MV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:36:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0298E0584; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 27.mail-out.ovh.net (27.mail-out.ovh.net [91.121.30.210]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3ECF5E0584 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12052 invoked by uid 503); 26 Mar 2009 15:52:48 -0000 Received: from b9.ovh.net (HELO mail139.ha.ovh.net) (213.186.33.59) by 27.mail-out.ovh.net with SMTP; 26 Mar 2009 15:52:48 -0000 Received: from b0.ovh.net (HELO queue-out) (213.186.33.50) by b0.ovh.net with SMTP; 26 Mar 2009 15:36:51 -0000 Received: from a81-84-103-93.cpe.netcabo.pt (HELO ?192.168.0.102?) (laurent@logiquefloue.org@81.84.103.93) by ns0.ovh.net with SMTP; 26 Mar 2009 15:36:50 -0000 Message-ID: <49CBA109.7040908@logiquefloue.org> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:36:41 +0100 From: laurent User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles References: <49C952AE.40904@logiquefloue.org> <200903250859.31339.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <49CA1D96.9060207@logiquefloue.org> <200903251422.09530.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <49CA24B6.3030909@logiquefloue.org> <20090325231719.18fa7f13@coercion> In-Reply-To: <20090325231719.18fa7f13@coercion> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 11606339190138896984 X-Ovh-Remote: 81.84.103.93 (a81-84-103-93.cpe.netcabo.pt) X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.20 (ns0.ovh.net) X-Spam-Check: DONE|H 0.5/N Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a5be052b-04bf-413d-ac0d-40f552354857 X-Archives-Hash: dd031e13ee92ddc795247b92963a19d5 Mike Kazantsev a =E9crit : > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:33:58 +0100 > laurent wrote: > > =20 >>> But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you= decide=20 >>> to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks? >>> >>> =20 >> Because I let my server host install it with their default disk layout= .=20 >> When I realise it looks pretty un-servish I had already installed http= =20 >> server with client website on it. >> The simplest for me was to move folders because I did not find any 'ho= w=20 >> to' that say it would be simple de repartition with keeping your data = on. >> =20 > > 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 ;) > > =20 LVM...hm nice new word to me. And rsync too, looks good. Ok I will have=20 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=20 again, if you know about it ;) thx Laurent.