On Sunday 18 January 2004 18:17, Jani-Matti H�tinen wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2004 18:55, Roger Sherman wrote: > > In reading over the Gentoo Handbook Installation Instructions, I saw > > something about how /var should be bigger in a Gentoo system, but I can't > > find that part today...any recommendations? > > When I need to install something big, I just mount the > home partition in /var/tmp/portage and thus have extra space for the temp > files. (I also mount /usr/portage/distfiles (which stores the downloaded > sources) in the bigger partition) > So, I'd say that 1 GB for /var should be enough. You won't need to > remount it with every small installation, and you won't have too much > unusable hard drive space in there. (There really aren't many things more > pointless than unused hard drive space) >
I prefer to set PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/home/tmp in /etc/make.conf, and then run env-update && source /etc/profile whenever I compile something big. 1GB is ok for /var though. -- �ystein Olsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, http://www.astro.uio.no University of Oslo, Norway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
