On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I take it you've already observed that you can also share portage and >> distfiles directories? Easiest is if they are on their own partitions but >> there are tricks that can get the same effect if not. How to do this is left >> as an exercise for the reader :-) with one tip for those who don't know: >> >> mount -o bind >> -- >> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > I know about mount -o bind. > However, (forgive me if this is naive), why not just a symlink? That > is the way I do. > I want my root partition to be small (for performance reasons), so I > put things that don't need speed int its own partion, which I mount in > /usr/local/slowpart (the name fits; the partition is at the end of the > harddisk and 80% full, so it is slower than the root partion, that is > at the beginning of the hard disk and 7% full. > In this slowpart, I have DISTDIR, PKGDIR, and some personal files that > are not frequently accessed (such as files I will likely never use but > kept for safety). I configure DISTDIR and PKGDIR in make.conf, but the > personal files are linked to my home via symbolic links. I guess the advantage of bind-mount is having all of it configured in fstab, as instead of having many symlinks. (forgive me it this is naive).
And there is all that --move, --make-shared, --make-slave, --make-private, --make-unbindable stuff, but that seems overkill for a desktop user. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds
