On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:49:00 +0200 Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hello > > I am a bit surprised handbook still doesn't suggest people to > create a separate partition for /usr/portage tree. I remember my > first Gentoo systems had it inside / and that lead to a lot of > fragmentation, much slower "emerge -pvuDN world" (I benchmarked it > when I changed my partitioning scheme to put /usr/portage) separate > and a lot of disk space lost (I remember portage tree reached > around 3 GB of disk space while I am now running with 300MB) > > Could handbook suggest people to put /usr/portage on a different > partition then? The only doubt I have is what filesystem would be > better for it, in my case I am using reiserfs with tail enabled, > but maybe you have other different setups. > > Thanks for discussing this :) not gonna happen, for reasons that SwifT & others already mentioned. this is the sort of non-simple, non-trivial text/info/instructions that would be better suited to an "optimizing your FS layout" article on the gentoo wiki, or similar.
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