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

[Fernando Meira <fmeira@gmail.com>]

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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% /
udev 252M 808K 252M 1% /dev
/dev/hda5 23G 20G 3.3G 86% /mnt/share
/dev/hda1 9.8G 8.0G 1.8G 82% /mnt/windows
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.

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

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

Cheers,
Fernando

On 8/7/05, Tero Grundstr� <tero@vuosaari.hai.fi> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote:
> 
> > I could then end my emerge (eclipse). After the emerge I end-up with
> > 805Mb free.
> >
> > In fact, I have a 38GB disk on my laptop. My mistake was that I assumed 
> that
> > gentoo was not so space-consuming. Now I'll have to make some 
> modifications,
> > redo my partitions.
> 
> 805Mb is not much but re-partitioning might not be the only answer if most
> of your system is installed already.
> 
> Look for PORTAGE_TMPDIR and DISTDIR in your /etc/make.conf. Point them
> to directories that are on a different partition. You can do the same for
> your PORTDIR (resync and delete the old tree after this).
> 
> app-admin/localepurge can also save you some space.
> 
> HTH
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> T.G.
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