Neil Bothwick wrote: >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. > >
Yes, configuring portage for your needs is good advice. My point is mostly that you want to keep 'temporary' files and 'permanent' files separated. Same goal, different method. I still think you want /var to be a separate partition, but it could be smaller in that case, maybe 1-2G. Just keep in mind that /usr/tmp is a link to /var/tmp, and many applications that use /usr/tmp expect a virtually unlimited amount of disk space to be available. >>[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 >> >> >> >ext3 also has an option to journal the data, but there's a significant >performance hit. > > Thanks...good to know. I have never used ext3, so my knowledge about it is quite limited. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
