Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 05 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely you meant move the /tmp, /usr and /var to the / partition?   Let me rephrase myself...   - *PHYSICALLY* moving /tmp /usr and /var to the /home partition.   - bind mount (or symlink) these directories to the / partition OK, I see what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-04 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:15:47AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote On Friday 04 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I accomplish this by moving /tmp /usr and /var to the /home partition. Surely you meant move the /tmp, /usr and /var to the / partition? Let me rephrase myself... -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-03 Thread Csányi András
Hemmann, Volker Armin írta: On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: · fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Over a whole system this can add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. This Depends largely on the type of files. I've got my portage tree on a reiserfs,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-03 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2007. 05. 3, csütörtök keltezéssel 22.17-kor Csányi András ezt írta: This is very big different. The filesystem space is problem for me. Use i reiserfs? Best regards, András If I were you, yes. I use reiserfs for years and I have good experiences with it (fault tolerant, space efficient

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-28 Thread Ralf Stephan
Over a whole system this can add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. This Depends largely on the type of files. I've got my portage tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! OTOH, you may not need to switch to reiser for that. It may

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:59:01 +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: This Depends largely on the type of files. I've got my portage tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! OTOH, you may not need to switch to reiser for that. It may simply be a

[gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
· fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Over a whole system this can add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. This Depends largely on the type of files. I've got my portage tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! Alexander Skwar -- Bond

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: · fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Over a whole system this can add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. This Depends largely on the type of files. I've got my portage tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Adam Carter
A bit softer than some of the other suggestions; # eclean packages # eclean distfiles app-portage/gentoolkit contains eclean. From the man page; eclean is small tool to remove obsolete portage sources files and binary packages. Used on a regular basis, it prevents your DISTDIR and