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

[Fernando Meira <fmeira@gmail.com>]

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Hi,

On 8/8/05, Tero Grundstr� <tero@vuosaari.hai.fi> wrote:
> 
> 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.


Yep. I don't pretend to have a minimal system. In fact, my laptop is the 
only pc I currently use, so it has to have everything I need.

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


As Neil said, it is a virtual filesystem. I didn't create it. What I did 
create was the swap partition with 512MB (the same size as my RAM) and it 
looks like it is split into two: "udev" and "none".

> /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 ?


Well, this partition has the purpose to hold all my documents and stuff. My 
idea was to have a partition only to windoz and its programs, another to 
gentoo and its programs, and then this one accessed by both side. It started 
to be my /home but I had some problems with permissions in the beginning 
that I couldn't solve, so I had to move /home back to gentoo partition.

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


ehheh.. .yes! The problem is that I need some things from there. I really 
can't wait for the day when I don't waste disk space with crap. 

> 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.


Ok, but that is assuming that I can point them to other partition. But if I 
have other partition available, I can just merge it with gentoo's one and 
keep everything together. It would be the same, right? 

>
> > 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.


I'll have a look to that.
Thanks!
Fernando

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