Vlad Dogaru wrote: > 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 >
You can change the path to distfiles in make.conf and then move it there. You do know about eclean I assume? It will remove some of the tarballs that are no longer needed and give you some space back. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list