On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 10:21, Mayuresh <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:10:47AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: > > A quick if not necessarily elegant option would be to have multiple > > qcow2 files - one for the system and one for space to build. You can > > release the build space by stopping the vm, just recreating the second > > qcow2 file and restarting the VM > > Yes, such thought occurred to me. I wish pkgsrc had a feature where `work' > could reside on a separate path (which I'll keep on a separate FS). This > way I can keep deleting the work FS, but don't have to check out pkgsrc > too many times. > > Or is there such feature already... (Will search through the guide.) >
I have: DISTDIR= /home/oc/pkgsrc/distfiles WRKOBJDIR= /home/oc/pkgsrc/work PACKAGES= /home/oc/pkgsrc/packages Nothing stops you from allocating a specific block device to each of the above. You'd have to play with machine types and virtio devices to have more than 4 drives. Qemu "-drive" invocation defaults to ide drives. -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
