On Mar 13, 2012 2:00 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >
Eh? But I put portage, src, share, etc. on a different partition mounted under /mnt ... doesn't that mean I am using a split filesystem? Rgds,
