Hello Peder: Thank you for this suggestion, I will give it some thought. Thanks to everyone for their help - should other commets come in during the next couple of days please note that I will be offline for a little while so do not feel I am being rude if not responding immediately. Cheers all, Graham/
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peder Blom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Graham North" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 9:55 AM Subject: Re: Pruning the Ports Tree > On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:52:18 -0700 > "Graham North" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Uli and the rest of the FreeBSD forum: > > > > Thanks for your advice - though I am not entirely sure what the > > purpose of your last questions are. > > > > To answer though: > > My HD is about 1.2G - it is sharing 2.0G with another OS. > > /usr ~ 778M > > usr/ports ~247M > > total /usr being used is ~595M with about 183M free. > > > > The problem is not disk space - it appears to be file handles. > > Remember, those ports files are only about 0.5K each - so lots of > > inodes are being used in file infrastructure. Midnight Comm which I > > use for a lot of file navigation indicates that I had 99838 inodes > > available - of which there are now only 602 free! Yesterday that was > > about 900, but then I mirrored part of a friend's website and used > > another 300. As you can see, I need to free up some file handling > > capability. > > > > Thanks for any further advice you can give. > > > > Cheers, Graham/ > > Hi Graham > > You might consider using a file-backed disk (see the handbook sec 12.11) > for your portstree. This should save a lot of inodes at the cost of > wasting some space on your hd. > > Something along the lines of: > > 1) Point workdirs and distfiles to directories outside the ports dir by > setting the environmental variables WRKDIRPREFIX and DISTDIR (man > ports). > > 2) Estimate what will be the maximum size of your portstree for the > lifetime of your setup, create a file of this size and make it into a > file-backed disk. > > 3) Mount this file-backed disk on /usr/ports. > > For this to be meaningful you obviously have to remove your current > portstree and build one on your file-backed disk. > > I'm running a setup similar to this for sharing ports between jails > without any problems. > > (You might even be able to create the file-backed disk on the slice you > are > sharing with another OS and gain some space on /usr, if needed.) > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
