/usr/portage

davermont · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 15

Can anyone tell me what a good partition size for /usr/portage and /var would be on a desktop system? I have a 250GB drive for just Linux, so space is not an issue. I realize that this should be in the partitioning section, but the last two posts I've put there haven't gotten any responses.

Phenax · l33t Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 972

The full portage tree takes 612mb on my ext3 partition. I'd say use about 2GB so it's safe for the future of our growing Portage tree.. (I use 2GB, anyway)

nikaya · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1471 Location: Germany

Be careful.In /usr/portage are the distfiles included,they can grow very huge if not regulary deleted.
I recommend 5GB for /usr/portage and 5GB for /var minimum (who cares -- 250Gb available :wink:

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nixnut · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject:

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Veldrin · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject:

From my experience:

Facts first:
Notebook:

/usr/portage: 2GB
/var/: 1.5GB
/var/tmp/: 6GB

Desktop:

/usr/portage: 5GB
/var/: 5GB
/var/tmp: 10GB

I also split /var/tmp of the tree, to be able to fast-wipe that partition if necessary, and to reduce fragmentation.

2GB for portage is a bit low, if you need the all distfiles there in... 5GB gives you some reserve.
1.5 GB is enough... especially if you keep cleaning your logfiles... Keep in mind that a lot of programs but there stuff in there (e.g. mysql)
The size for /var/tmp I calculated for emerging some very large packages (ut2004, and openoffice (source base) come to my mind). I haven't tried it on my notebook, but the 10GB on my desktop a enough...

2GB for /usr/portage, and 5GB for /var, if you want to save space for e.g. home, or data...
5GB and 10GB resp. if want to have a worry free life

Hope it helped.

cheers
V.

Roman_Gruber · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject:

Use the gparted cd for partioning. It can resize your partition, if you want to change it later. Don*t forget to make backups before, also reguarlly.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

The CD also offers the following programs: cfdisk, fdisk, sfdisk, rsync,
grsync, grub, lilo, nano, ntfs-3g, partimage, testdisk, Thunar, Terminal,
and leafpad.

skellr · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:08 am Post subject:

/usr/portage uses a gross amount of inodes. I would recomend using the news or small fs-type option for ext*

dkostic · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:15 am Post subject:

It depends also on how much stuff you'd like to install. If you're like me and you love gnome with all the bells and whistles, /usr/portage can get pretty big. Currently on my desktop it's around 13 Gb. I'm bad about cleaning out stuff I don't need, though. :wink:

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