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

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

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
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote:
>>
>> 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)
>
> 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.

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T.G.
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