On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:04:00 +0700 Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote:
> I am seriously thinking of splitting the storage of directories > under /usr, e.g., /usr/portage and /usr/source actually living > somewhere else, on different partition and different filesystem. > Let's say something mounted on /mnt/Persistent. > > My question: should I use bindmount or symlinks to do that? What's the > drawbacks/benefits for either? > > Rgds, You should do neither as they do not give you split storage, they both give you the same thing in two different places. Create two new filesystems and mount them. I personally use /var/portage as there is no good reason for it to be under /usr where it is just clutter. Code goes in /usr Data goes in /var You have to change PORTDIR in /etc/make.conf for this to work as well as /etc/make.profile. Nothing breaks without it, you just get errors from portage -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
