I will not give up!

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- Greg Neumann <dadneumann at adelphia.net> wrote:

> Dave,
> Has Gentoo made sense of what to do w/ all the temporary files you end 
> up with? I installed Gentoo about a year ago, and ripped it off because 
> I kept running out of temp space w/ a 1 gig /tmp partition! I can't 
> afford larger drives, and that space is precious. When I tried to make 
> intelligent deletions, I ended up w/ crippled X, etc. In this respect, 
> Gentoo was as bad as Windows, eating drive space for no good reason.. 
> Past that, Gentoo was pretty nice.
> -Greg Neumann

I've only had an occasionally issue with /usr/portage/distfiles filling up, 
but that's easily remedied.  The normal build point is /var/tmp/portage, (for
compiling) but once a package is built it's build files are removed, so
/var/tmp portage doesn't grow.  it WILL leave a directory behind in
/var/tmp/portage, but those take minimal space.  (I don't know for 100% sure if
portage uses those old dirs or not....)

It's important to make sure there's enough space on the FS where /var is
mounted or you could run into built issues...  I typically use multiple
filesystems, and split things up so that if one FS fills it doesn't crash the
system.  I usually have "/" be about 200 megs, and have /usr, /var, /tmp and
/home (and /opt) as separate partitions. 

my current partition layout is like:
/dev/sda1               247903    116730    118374  50% /
/dev/sda5               396656    258277    117900  69% /var
/dev/sda6               404784      6260    398524   2% /tmp
/dev/sda7              4695344    190660   4504684   5% /scratch
/dev/sda8             11345200   4569232   6775968  41% /opt
/dev/sdb1              9211184   8168468   1042716  89% /media/audio
/dev/sdb3              8057152    644540   7412612   8% /scratch3
/dev/sdc1              5877728   3376132   2501596  58% /home
/dev/sdc3             11473920   7452000   4021920  65% /usr
/dev/sdd1             17775148  12694308   5080840  72% /other
none                    386752         0    386752   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sde1            156278784 156278724        60 100% /mnt/disk



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Dave J. Andruczyk


		
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