Move portage

ventricle · Guru Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 305 Location: UK/Australia

I have about 22 gig spare unformatted, so I want to create a new partition with that, format with XFS and use it!
I was thinking it might be worthwhile me mounting the /usr/portage directory on that partition (because I'm sure I'll run out on /usr soon - and I often have to change my TMP directory because that partition is too small also).
I would also put some other stuff on it as well, but this is where I was heading.
Would doing this be a good idea, and how would I actually move the /usr/portage directory onto the new mount?
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ebrostig · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 7:08 pm Post subject:

Yes, you can do this wiothout a problem, it is very easy to do.

1. Prepare the spare disk, ie. make the filesystem.
2. mkdir /mnt/new
3. mount /dev/hdX /mnt/new (where hdX is the new drive)
4. cd /usr/portage
5. mv * /mnt/new
6. umount /mnt/new
7. Edit /etc/fstab and add the new entry and use /usr/portage as mountpoint
8. mount /usr/portage

There you go! That's it!

Erik
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