On 1/27/07, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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?
>
> Thanks,
> Vlad
>
You can change the path to distfiles in make.conf and then move it there.
You do know about eclean I assume? It will remove some of the tarballs
that are no longer needed and give you some space back.
Hi everyone,
I had no idea about these settings in make.conf or about eclean. I
apologise for not having read the proverbial manual thoroughly enough.
One question though: is there a reason why PORTAGE_TMPDIR does not
default to /tmp?
Cheers,
Vlad
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