2018-02-09 3:50 GMT+02:00 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > gevisz wrote: >> >> You probably will be surprised, but the main reason I am trying to use >> tmpfs for /var/tmp/ is not because I want to make emerging chromium >> faster (I have no hope about that because read somewhere that it will >> make compilation only 10 percent faster) but because I have not too >> much free space on / (sometimes in the past chromium refused to build >> in the similar conditions) and because of that either have to move /var/tmp >> to the separate partition anyway or try to use tmpfs + swap and, if it fails, >> to move to the separate partition only /var/tmp/portage/notmpfs >> > > > I think you can tell emerge/portage to build that specific program on > another disk. You just have to tell it where, sort of the same way you > tell it to build on disk instead of tmpfs. I've never done it but it > should work the same way. Just make sure the permissions are right. > > My thinking. Let's say you have chromium that won't fit on the usual > disk. Tell emerge/portage to build chromium in another directory that > is on another disk. > > /etc/portage/env/largedisk.conf > PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/largedisk" > > /etc/portage/package.env/package.env > www-client/chromium ../env/largedisk.conf > > Once you have those files set up to work, then make sure you have your > large disk mounted at /var/tmp/largedisk and I would think it would > work. Anytime you emerge chromium, it should do that in > /var/tmp/largedisk. Only question is, do you have another disk to try > this on???
Yes. I still have an unused 4th primary partition on the same hard disk. I am going to make it extended and create 3 more partitions on it: one — for /var/tmp/notmfs, another — for /var/log and the 3rd one — for some unpredictable purposes like installing a rescue system. Still have not decided on their size, file system and mount options but it would be another question in a separate thread, when I come to it. I am currently building a new and shiny :) Gentoo system on the 1st primery partion of this disk, that actually contained old /var/tmp, because I am a bit afraid to update my old and still working Gentoo system on the same hard disk that I have not updated for about 9 months. Moreover, I have changed profile from not used for a long time default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome one to default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/ and already found out a lot of not wise solutions like alsa + pulseaudio with initrc and the likes that I currently trying to avoid. > Anyone think that wouldn't work??? Basically, you are just telling > emerge/portage to build somewhere else and it shouldn't care where that > is, tmpfs or disk. Right? It is exactly what suggested in the "Per-package choices at compile time" section of the "Portage TMPDIR on tmpfs” Gentoo wiki. So it should work. :)
