> > Over a whole system this can > > add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. > > This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage > tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple > 100 (one-zero-zero) megs!
OTOH, you may not need to switch to reiser for that. It may simply be a matter of giving /usr/portage its own partition and a smaller block size. I have no data on that, though. ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list