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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage
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On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:45:36 +0300 (EEST), Tero Grundstr_m wrote:
>
>>> udev 252M 808K 252M 1% /dev
>> ^^ Why a separate partition for /dev? This is complete waste.
>> Especially with that size.
>
> udev is a virtual filesystem, it's using 808K of memory, not 252M of disk
> space. udev appears to allocate half the available RAM as the maximum size
> for /dev.

Your right. It's correct. Maybe I got distracted because of the 23Gb 
/mnt/share partition and spoke too early...

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