RE: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

["Michael Kintzios" <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tero Grundstrm [mailto:tero@vuosaari.hai.fi] 
> Sent: 08 August 2005 11:21
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage
> 
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Tero Grundstrm [mailto:tero@vuosaari.hai.fi]
> >> Sent: 08 August 2005 08:46
> >> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage
> >>
[snip]
> > You could have a separate /usr or /usr/portage partition so 
> that when/if
> > it runs out of space, your system continues to run despite 
> the emerge
> > coming to a halt.
> 
> I don't don't know if this is very practical, atleast without 
> a volume 
> manager.
> 
> Besides, isn't this taken care of by the filesystem already? 
> I know that 
> ext2/3 preserve a persentage of the partition size for root 
> especially for 
> these cases.

Well, it has been practical enough for *my* needs.  For a while I was
running Gentoo on a small partition and having run aground on a couple
of cases with a seized system during some mammoth emerge, I decided to
set up a separate /usr partition.  Thereafter, I was able to recover
future incidents without having to boot the LiveCD.  As you say, if
someone is going to alter partition sizes often then LVM is the way to
go.  On the other hand if you have a good idea on how big your
/usr/portage is or needs to be then my suggestion is a simple enough
solution.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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