I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition that I had cleaned up (this was from a rebuild of a system that was a different distro in the past) and moved over /usr/portage to it. It's a 47 GB partition (as reported by df -h) and the system works fine.
I do realize that if the mount command got screwed up, I'd probably have issues recovering the system, but that is that system. I am now thinking of converting my desktop over to Gentoo as well, and was wondering whether what I did above on the server was wise or not. I will be using the server as the portage provider for my desktop too. Otherwise, what is the recommended space to have available for the portage tree in /usr/portage so I can have root as an appropriately sized partition? TIA, Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
