On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:15:53 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > You are on the right track. 10G should be good enough for most system > partitions, just keep on eye on /usr/portage/distfiles to make sure it > doesn't consume all of the space on your root volume.
Or use a different directory, the location can be changed in /etc/make.conf. > I would also suggest making a /var partition or LVM volume of 2-5GB. > /var serves as the gentoo build space, as well as temporary file space. > Thus the /var directory will experience a lot of file creations, > modifications, and deletions, so it is best to keep it isolated from the > rest of the system to cut down on fragmentation. Once again, you can point PORTAGE_TMPDIR to wherever you want. I have a large partition I use for things like building ISO images, intermediate video file and suchlike and have PORTAGE_TMPDIR set to a directory on this partition. > [Slightly Off Topic] > With the current journaled filesystems for linux, it really doesn't make > sense to talk about 'data-integrity'. Corrupted files are just as > possible on reiserfs, xfs, jfs, and ext3 as they were on ext2. This is > because, AFAIK, all of the current filesystems journal the filesystem > meta-data only, so if the system crashes, the filesystem can repair > itself. The filesystem makes no guarantees about repairing the files it > contains. Reiser4 is one of the first to attempt file data journaling > as well, but AFAICT, it is still fairly unstable. ext3 also has an option to journal the data, but there's a significant performance hit. -- Neil Bothwick "Bother," said Pooh as he farted in front of a badly placed candle
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