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

[Fernando Meira <fmeira@gmail.com>]

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Hi again Sean,
thanks for answering (as well the others :))

more questions:

On 8/8/05, Sean Reiser <sean@seanreiser.com> wrote:

> mmhmm... the webcam / video-conference stuff is not something I have
> much expirience with either, sorry to say. As far as the other software
> is concerned I would look at the crossover office fork of wine (assuming
> that wine itself won't run it) or maybe some virtualization software
> such as vmare.


Yes, that might be the best I can do now.
I been looking for VMWare and Wine and from what I read, I prefer Wine, but 
does it run everything, most of it or almost nothing?
I read it is must harder to install/configure, but I'll give it a try. Or is 
there anyone to convince me that VMWare is better?
I'll erase my windows partition and merge it with gentoo's one. I'll end up 
with ~15Gb for gentoo... which seems to be fairly acceptable. In a future 
stage, I might convert my "share" partition from FAT32 to a linux like. By 
the way, I use reiserfs on my gentoo's partition. Will I have problems to 
resize it?

About the videoconference, I checked the forum and got aware of the cvs 
version of amsn which already supports it. :)

> 3) Convert hda5 to ext3|reiserfs|jfs|mature non-fat fs of
> > choice. Mount
> > it as /home.
> >
> >
> > The reason it is FAT32 is to windows be able to access it. With
> > windows away, I could do that.
> 
> Right. Keep in mind that with VMWare you can mount your linux home
> directory as a SMB share.
> 
> Another advantage of a seperate /home is that you can reinstall the OS
> without effecting your important personal data and settings. I realize
> on your current system /mnt/share really handled some of that but
> thought I'd mention it as well.


Yes, that was the main reason to have my personal files on other partition. 
As I said, converting this partition will be the next step after removing 
windows and installing wine.

Cheers,
Fernando

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