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 1EKcbj-00089k-Iy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:08:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8SDxnJ9020328; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:59:49 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8SDqxkE006182 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:52:59 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKcTi-00086f-Vn for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:00:11 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EKcRC-0001Ii-Bs for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:57:34 +0200 Received: from adsl-68-74-186-158.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.74.186.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:57:34 +0200 Received: from reader by adsl-68-74-186-158.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:57:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:55:46 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <877jd15mal.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87oe6d5q8s.fsf@newsguy.com> <200509281552.17882.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-74-186-158.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pZhnGPNioLi7d9pD8yZFwYn8DdY= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: ad3a1cf9-82a9-4190-9dd7-2c4a58a86426 X-Archives-Hash: 71112ce078904e152ef5dede98447bf2 Etaoin Shrdlu writes: > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 14:43, glumtail wrote: > >> You can alway rm /usr/portage/distfiles/ >> Those files can be downloaded again when emerge. > > Also, the block size of the file system in which /usr/portage lives can > make a big difference. > Try a clean /usr/portage on an ext2/3 filesystem vs. a /usr/portage on > reiserfs and you'll see what I mean. I am using reiserfs but only on trial basis. I've noticed what appears to be quite a large increase in time needed for fs intensive things like du or rm -rf as compared to ext3 but I've done no real comparison testing. Have you noticed that too? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list