Uwe Thiem wrote:
Too big a thing for A. There is a reason why it doesn't have its own portage
tree. ;-)
Uwe
You could also loopback mount a file just for portage, which shrinks the
needed space down considerably. I use reiserfs with tail packing to fit
the whole tree onto a 260 megabyte file.
On a test directory in an ext3 partition..
du -h portagetest
561M portagetest
Actual portage setup...
df -h
/root/portage.img 260M 248M 13M 96% /usr/portage
ls -lha /root/portage.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 260M 2007-11-09 20:03 /root/portage.img
/etc/fstab entry...
/root/portage.img /usr/portage auto loop,noatime,nodev 0 2
Down to almost half is pretty darn good in my book. Of course, packages
and distfiles are kept elsewhere. All my systems are different chosts,
so no sharing packages; and I use http-replicator, so no need for
distfiles saved on every machine.
PaulNM
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