On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:38:14 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Depends, compiling openoffice will dump 3-4Gbytes on top of whats > already there. Then the op wants to use keepalive ... The main reason > my gateway goes down is I log to a mysql database, which occaisionally > fills up /var (4G, currently 2G available, I add extra when doing OO > etc) My desktop has 48G /var for working with dvd's etc - usually > adequate!
You don't have to use /var for portage's temporary storage. If you have important information. like databases, in /var, it is probably best if you don't ask portage to dump several GB of temporary files on top of it. I use a separate partition, using XFS for speed, for anything that generates a lot of temporary data. this includes portage, video intermediate files and DVD ISO images. -- Neil Bothwick Bagpipe for free: Stuff cat under arm. Pull legs, chew tail.
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