On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:42:50AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote > On 03/31/2012 06:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > About the wiki page, I can only document reiserfs+tail usage as it's the > > one I use and I know, about other alternatives like using squashfs, loop > > mount... I cannot promise anything as I simply don't know how to set > > them. > > Squashfs is really simple to use: > > mksquashfs /usr/portage portage.squashfs > mount -o loop portage.squashfs /usr/portage
Don't the "space-saving filesystems" (squashfs, reiserfs-with-tail, etc) run more slowly due to their extra finicky steps to save space? If you really want to save a gigabyte or 2, run "eclean -d distfiles" and "localepurge" after every emerge update. I've also cobbled together my own "autodepclean" script that check for, and optionally unmerges unneeded stuff that was pulled in as a dependancy of a package that has since been removed. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
