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

[Fernando Meira <fmeira@gmail.com>]

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Hi Neil,

On 8/8/05, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:00:49 +0100, Michael Kintzios wrote:
> 
> > Well, it has been practical enough for *my* needs. For a while I was
> > running Gentoo on a small partition and having run aground on a couple
> > of cases with a seized system during some mammoth emerge, I decided to
> > set up a separate /usr partition.
> 
> You don't need to add partitions, because portage isn't hard coded to use
> any particular partitions. If you run out of space during emerges, you
> only have to change $PORTAGE_TMPDIR to somewhere with more space
> than /var. Equally, you can change $DISTDIR to reduce the amount of space
> used in /usr/portage, you could even change it to a FAT32 partition of
> your Windows installation has more free space than Gentoo.


So I can point them both to the FAT32 partition and get 1Gb back (when not 
emerging) to gentoo's system.. that's interesting! That could help me until 
I find a real solution to the mess on my pc... :)

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