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 -- How's my English? How about my Netiquette? Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
