On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:17:07AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > <SNIP> > >> /mnt/distfiles ext3/4 (shared via nfs) > >> > > > > Why do you separate the distfiles from the portage tree? > > > > Rgds, > > distfiles has a tendency to grow large over the years. IIRC nothing > cleans it up automatically so having it separate is just a simple > safety mechanism to not run out of disk space after emerge -fDuN > @world, etc.
man eclean http://gpio.ca/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+eclean -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
