On 4/20/06 11:41 PM, "Martins Steinbergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 21 April 2006 06:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on /
>>
>> When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get
>> a new and nearly identical timestamp.
>>
>> Will this hurt the packaging/compiling or "anything related to
>> administer gentoo"-thingy ?
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance for any helpful reply ! :)
>>
>> Keep hacking!
>> mcc
Rsync -a is a better tool for that, as it will preserve
timestamps/permissions, etc.
>
> I have experience only with distfiles on vfat partition. generally it can be
> that way but without lockfile and cvs and svn. and probably resume on
> unfinished downloads corrupts files but I'm not sure about it.
> To avoid very complex setup i steal space from vfat in favor of ext3 to put
> distfiles on.
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