WIKI: /var/tmp/portage with tmpfs
Javier Juan Martínez Cabezón <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:18:20 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.documentation |
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Hi all, I have one suggestion that could be useful for you and a better approach: I think it could be added to this part of the wiki: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs an controlled autofs tmpfs mounted on /var/tmp/portage: Relevant files: (based on https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AutoFS) from my /etc/autofs/auto.master entry: /- /etc/autofs/autofs.vartmp and from my /etc/autofs/autofs.vartmp: /var/tmp/portage -fstype=tmpfs,size=14G tmpfs --timeout 300 with those lines in the mount command output you could see: /etc/autofs/autofs.vartmp on /var/tmp/portage type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=6,pgrp=31264,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct) and after accesing the directory: tmpfs on /var/tmp/portage type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=14680064k) At this way you could get a portage dir mounted just only when you need it (emerging packages) and the RAM freed after use with the timeout.