From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2CTb-00068C-JU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:35:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j78IYhbo031322; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:34:43 GMT Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.193]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j78IUGaP008491 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:30:17 GMT Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l37so247875nfc for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 11:30:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=uF0OAUYcyKsABuXUxWf21fnIf6kLRvz3rhoAiQu2u5E/lfeAY65By6SqF4McUADDfA2NWvZxTSEjTmmMicpe3eA6Txmu3v4uXF9cxo2jiAKo/Nidt2OdVbdZWLgCKdOOGeMZboxoWu7mu8L0NvCvEPpw+d0Qg9sMRRHh3KhqQBg= Received: by 10.48.239.19 with SMTP id m19mr172954nfh; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 11:23:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.142.10 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:23:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:23:30 +0000 From: Fernando Meira To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage In-Reply-To: <20050808141320.0de22bf8@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_5999_32855119.1123525410520" References: <20050808141320.0de22bf8@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 09858dcc-ceee-4055-9b06-9657ea6f0d26 X-Archives-Hash: b0ae1ffb41c591fc0a339a5f542e5ac4 ------=_Part_5999_32855119.1123525410520 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi Neil, On 8/8/05, Neil Bothwick wrote: >=20 > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:00:49 +0100, Michael Kintzios wrote: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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= =20 emerging) to gentoo's system.. that's interesting! That could help me until= =20 I find a real solution to the mess on my pc... :) ------=_Part_5999_32855119.1123525410520 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 co= uple
> 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 par= titions, because portage isn't hard coded to use
any particular partitio= ns. If you run out of space during emerges, you
only have to change $PORTAGE_TMPDIR to somewhere with more space
tha= n /var. Equally, you can change $DISTDIR to reduce the amount of space
u= sed 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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