Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:03:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Kevin Smith <smithcam@adelphia.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving ports to another file system Message-ID: <20041129060333.GB5518@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <41AAB892.70707@adelphia.net> References: <41AAB892.70707@adelphia.net>
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In the last episode (Nov 28), Kevin Smith said: > After installation and setting up of my BSD system for a while, I've > come to realize that I probably should have organized my disk a bit > differently and I have a smaller root file system then I would have > liked. I may have also created a separate /usr file system, but I > have /usr in the root file system. > > The /usr/ports can take up a lot of space and I'm wondering if there > are limitations to having ports live in a another files system with a > symbolic link from /usr/ports to a ports directory in another file > system. No limitations at all. You can even symlink it over NFS to another machine if you want (set WRKDIRPREFIX to a local path in /etc/make.conf though, to speed up builds). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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