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

["Tero Grundstr�m" <tero@vuosaari.hai.fi>]

On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote:

> Hi Tero,
> what I meant with "redo my partitions" was in the way that I will expand 
> my gentoo partition (or try to).
> I have:
> # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda4 4.6G 3.8G 803M 83% /
^^ *might* be enough for a minimal system, but not for your compiles or 
distfiles.

> udev 252M 808K 252M 1% /dev
^^ Why a separate partition for /dev? This is complete waste. Especially 
with that size.

> /dev/hda5 23G 20G 3.3G 86% /mnt/share
^^ You'll *never* need that much space in here. Do not have this on a 
separate partition. Maybe you could make this partition your /home ?

> /dev/hda1 9.8G 8.0G 1.8G 82% /mnt/windows
^^ Complete waste ;)

> none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
>
> Options: 
> - erase hda1 (win$) and merge with with hda4.
> - somehow rearrange hda5 (which is FAT) and split it 2, and merge a part 
> to hda4.

It is up to you how to rearrange them but I suggest that you have only 
these partitions for Gentoo:

/boot
/
/home (optional but recommended)
(+swap)

>
> what are the advantages of pointing PORTAGE_TMPDIR and DISTDIR to other 
> partitions?

The idea is, ofcourse, to give your compiles and distfiles more room. 
This in turn would free up space for your system.

>
> thanks for the localepurge tip:
> - Total disk space freed by localepurge: 48448K (not bad ;)

Yeah, it's great. BTW, check out the 'userlocales' USE flag for glibc too. 
It will speed up the compilation and save some space.

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