[gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
· fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Over a whole system this can > add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! Alexander Skwar -- "Bond re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Over a whole system this can > > add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. > > This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage > tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Adam Carter
A bit softer than some of the other suggestions; # eclean packages # eclean distfiles app-portage/gentoolkit contains eclean. From the man page; "eclean is small tool to remove obsolete portage sources files and binary packages. Used on a regular basis, it prevents your DISTDIR and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-28 Thread Ralf Stephan
> > Over a whole system this can > > add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. > > This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage > tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple > 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! OTOH, you may not need to switch to reiser for tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:59:01 +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage > > tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple > > 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! > > OTOH, you may not need to switch to reiser for that. > It may simply

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-03 Thread Csányi András
Hemmann, Volker Armin írta: > On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> · fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Over a whole system this can >>> add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. >>> >> This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-03 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2007. 05. 3, csütörtök keltezéssel 22.17-kor Csányi András ezt írta: > This is very big different. > The filesystem space is problem for me. Use i reiserfs? > > Best regards, > András If I were you, yes. I use reiserfs for years and I have good experiences with it (fault tolerant, space efficien

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-03 Thread waltdnes
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:17:50PM +0200, Cs??nyi Andr??s wrote Another thing you can do is use fewer partitions. Each partition requires a safety margin. The fewer partitions you have, the less wasted space for safety margins. Here is my setup... [m450][waltdnes][~] df Filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I accomplish this by moving /tmp /usr and /var to the /home > partition. Surely you meant "move the /tmp, /usr and /var to the / partition"? It won't work moving them to /home unless you put symlinks in and that would just be ... odd alan --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-04 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:15:47AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > On Friday 04 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I accomplish this by moving /tmp /usr and /var to the /home > > partition. > > Surely you meant "move the /tmp, /usr and /var to the / partition"? Let me rephrase myself... - *P

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 05 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Surely you meant "move the /tmp, /usr and /var to the / partition"? > >   Let me rephrase myself... >   - *PHYSICALLY* moving /tmp /usr and /var to the /home partition. >   - bind mount (or symlink) these directories to the / partition OK, I se