On Saturday 27 January 2007 13:16, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > Hello, > > My distfiles is getting quite big and I was thinking of symlinking it > to another partition (just as a temporary solution until I find the > time to re-partition my hard drive). I know I could just delete what I > don't use, but I hope to keep them until the planned reinstall of > Gentoo, so that I can use at least part of the 1.1 GiB (my bandwith is > limited). > > Can symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles (and even /usr/tmp/portage) to > directories on another ext2 partition hurt Portage? Are there any > common pitfalls to this procedure? Are the rights on these directories > preserved at the next mount or do I also have to edit fstab?
Do you know that you can use eclean to remove obsolete/older versions of source files from your /usr/portage/distfiles directory? Alternatively, you can just select and rm some of these manually to save some space. -- Regards, Mick
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