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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HAnUv-0003kN-Dv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:21:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0RDKULf008066; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:20:30 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0RDGQlu003392 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:16:26 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so2771765nfb for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:16:26 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=OEVI2iZV1SyTYpfM5e1MvthlMYFpCWefYJDg8J/8b3G1WKoJVsCfImvnRZTJy7GwTxwKVaciGm9vztAB34ShZqQPtFFkhkPCh17kcMOFNPZd+gzoJarPG238lovW9S446fLmcJ9A2/CIi3FB03BvK34T7hhbdVWvPVz/eo5EeWI= Received: by 10.82.182.8 with SMTP id e8mr2474558buf.1169903785830; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:16:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.179.19 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:16:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:16:25 +0200 From: "Vlad Dogaru" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: 1af452a3-e008-4bb5-9da3-e67f1d3b7d21 X-Archives-Hash: 00d40fbfa5aed1a0e21ff24238b4c479 Hello, My distfiles is getting quite big and I was thinking of symlinking it to another partition (just as a temporary solution until I find the time to re-partition my hard drive). I know I could just delete what I don't use, but I hope to keep them until the planned reinstall of Gentoo, so that I can use at least part of the 1.1 GiB (my bandwith is limited). Can symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles (and even /usr/tmp/portage) to directories on another ext2 partition hurt Portage? Are there any common pitfalls to this procedure? Are the rights on these directories preserved at the next mount or do I also have to edit fstab? Thanks, Vlad -- How's my English? How about my Netiquette? Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list