Am 30.09.2013 11:00, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> On 30/09/2013 00:53, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> On 2013-09-29 5:15 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Those numbers are not likely to change much with time, with one
>>> exception:
>>>
>>> /usr/src
>>>
>>> That can get real big real quick if you don't clean up kernel sources
>>> often. Ideally, you'd make that a suitably sized LV and mount it
>>> seperately.
>> Yeah, I always keep 2 or 3 known good kernels, and clean out the old
>> stuff, so no worries there.
>>
>>> The other space consumer is /usr/share with it's many documentation
>>> files. But those too tend to be stable once you have everything
>>> installed. 5G free out of 19G is ~75% space in use which is perfectly
>>> acceptable for this case.
>>>
>>> Regular monitoring of the state of your machines will tell you if space
>>> usage increases so you can investigate and deal with it timeously.
>>>
>>> I assume you long since moved portage and it's storage directories out
>>> of /usr into /var?
>> Hmmm... No, I never did that myself...
>>
>> Wow...
>>
>> moria : Sun Sep 29, 18:19:01 : ~
>> # du -sh /usr/*
>> 85M /usr/bin
>> 131M /usr/include
>> 0 /usr/lib
>> 11M /usr/lib32
>> 530M /usr/lib64
>> 51M /usr/libexec
>> 15M /usr/local
>> 7.8G /usr/portage
>> 21M /usr/sbin
>> 509M /usr/share
>> 3.9G /usr/src
>> 0 /usr/tmp
>> 7.0M /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>> moria : Sun Sep 29, 18:26:30 : ~
>> #
> Apart from portage and src that all looks totally normal and unlikely to
> vary much over time.
>
>
>
>> Is this the official gentoo way now? Will a new/fresh virgin install
>> have /var/portage instead of /usr/portage?
> The new instaled default is to put all of portage on /var, whilst still
> supporting old installs on /usr. This is no big deal in code, as it's
> really just a string containing a base path
>
>
>> I can eliminate almost 8GB by moving portage and its storage directories...
> Or move them onto a dedictaed LV. This is a case where a different mount
> point makes a lot of sense - we're all aware just how unique the tree is
> in terms of fs performance - thousands of small files mostly smaller
> than 2k in hundreds of directories. It's quite different to everything
> else on /usr or even /var.
>
> Same with distfiles, that too can move anywhere you want it to be, just
> adjust one setting in make.conf
>
>> I don't recall seeing a news item about that...
> IIRC it wasn't a news item as such. Perhaps it was an elog from portage
> itself.
>
>
>> But... is /usr/portage the default/recommended location? If so, then I
>> don't think I want to move it - I generally never change defaults unless
>> there is a very good reason to do so.
> It's /var/portage for new installs. If you want it to be somewhere else,
> just move it and adjust make.conf
>
>
really? so when I moved PORTDIR to /var/portage I was ahead of the rest?
Wow...
