On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:23:30 +0000, Fernando Meira wrote: > > You don't need to add partitions, because portage isn't hard coded to > > use any particular partitions. If you run out of space during > > emerges, you only have to change $PORTAGE_TMPDIR to somewhere with > > more space than /var. Equally, you can change $DISTDIR to reduce the > > amount of space used in /usr/portage, you could even change it to a > > FAT32 partition of your Windows installation has more free space than > > Gentoo.
> So I can point them both to the FAT32 partition and get 1Gb back (when > not emerging) to gentoo's system.. that's interesting! That could help > me until I find a real solution to the mess on my pc... :) I'm not sure whether $PORTAGE_TMPDIR would work on a FAT32 partition, because of the lack of permissions. -- Neil Bothwick -Come, come, why they couldn't hit an elephant from this dist-
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