/urs/portage on different partition, where to untar portage?

cil · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 6

Hi,

for fragmentation reasons, I decided to put the whole portage directory onto its own partition. When I untar the latest portage snapshot during installation, do I have to untar it to the (mounted) /usr/portage directory or is /usr/ sufficient, as the handbook states?

Thanks,

cil

DawgG · l33t Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 872

when the partitions are mounted in the correct place you don't have to worry about devices. if you have a mountpoint /usr/portage and the fs is mounted there there should be no trouble, the existing dir/mountpoint will be used.
i think it's a safe bet to stick to the handbook :wink:
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gentoo-dev · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 172

Once mounted, it does not matter whether it's a separate partition or not, follow the handbook to the T after mounting it.
Don't forget to add it to your /etc/fstab later on.

FWIW, I also use a dedicated partition for /usr/portage (and another one for /usr/portage/distfiles) with a small block size and ext2. emerge --sync takes about 20 seconds to complete, just under 30s on a freshly booted box with an empty cache.

pdr · l33t Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 618

As long as it is mounted in the correct location (eg you did "mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr && mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage && mount /dev/whatever /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage"), then just follow the manual. I installed one time with 4 or 5 partitions mounted onto / - un-tarring doesn't care if the directories already exist, nor about any extra lost+found's..

cil · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 6

Thank you folks!

I thought I'd better not mess with the handbook instructions. Now I'm off to install...