Thanks, everybody, for the advice...I'm going to give it a whirl now. :-D
On Sunday 18 January 2004 12:17 pm, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2004 18:55, Roger Sherman wrote: > > In reading over the Gentoo Handbook Installation Instructions, I saw > > something about how /var should be bigger in a Gentoo system, but I can't > > find that part today...any recommendations? > > /var needs a bit of space because portage uses it (or /var/tmp/portage to > be precise) to store temporary build files during installations. > OpenOffice, for example requires c. 2,7 GB for it's temporary files. > However, IMHO there's really no need to allocate huge amounts of space > for /var. Portage needs the space only when it installs something and after > the installation you can safely delete everything in /var/tmp/portage. For > example I have only 5 GB for / (2 BG of which is currently free) and the > rest 15 GB in /home. When I need to install something big, I just mount the > home partition in /var/tmp/portage and thus have extra space for the temp > files. (I also mount /usr/portage/distfiles (which stores the downloaded > sources) in the bigger partition) > So, I'd say that 1 GB for /var should be enough. You won't need to > remount it with every small installation, and you won't have too much > unusable hard drive space in there. (There really aren't many things more > pointless than unused hard drive space) > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
