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Dominique_71
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 Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject: Tip: partition too small for /usr/portage/distfiles |
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I have a few partitions on my box, and the one with among other /usr/portage/distfiles was running out of space.
What i have done is to deplace the files in this directory to another partition and symlink them. Linux is amazing, because you can symlink all those files with a simple command.
If you have a mounted partition in /mnt/patition1 , you copy /usr/portage/distfiles to get /mnt/partition1/distfiles with all the files in it, you delete all the files in /usr/portage/distfiles, you go in /mnt/partition1 and run:
| Code: | | find distfiles/ -type f -exec ln -s /mnt/partition1/{} /usr/portage/{} \; |
Thats all!
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| Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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Won't you need to do this quite frequently, i.e. every time you start running out of space?
Why not just have the new partition mounted to /usr/portage/distfiles once you have copied the files over?
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:59 am Post subject: |
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| nevynxxx wrote: | Won't you need to do this quite frequently, i.e. every time you start running out of space?
Why not just have the new partition mounted to /usr/portage/distfiles once you have copied the files over? |
The OP seems to have thought not too deeply before doing things. 
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The OP's signature above is true, but one must think deeply before doing, too.
Symlinks are messy compared to just moving the files. |
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Pithlit
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:21 am Post subject: |
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There's also the little thing in make.conf called "DISTDIR" : | Code: | | DISTDIR=/path/to/distfiles |
You might wanna use that instead of symlinking stuff (that doesn't need symlinking).
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kallamej
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You may also want to consider cleaning the directory from time to time.
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syrrus
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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Or consider using a space saving file system such as cloopfs, unionfs, squashfs etc....
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