Re: Making a partition larger without affecting my OS.

Dave Sizer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thank you Dale, that insight is really helpful!

On Sun, 15 Mar 2026, Dale wrote:

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> I copy the binaries over and emerge those, no compiling for those.  This
> way my updates are only going to be out of sync version wise for maybe
> 20 to 30 minutes or even less in a lot of cases.  Usually when I start
> emerging the binaries, I start closing programs so that I can logout and
> back in anyway.  It takes me a few minutes to close certain things and
> make notes of something I need to get back to when I log back in.

Is there any doc or anything about how to emerge the binaries that were
built in the chroot? Or would you mind giving me a quick writeup of the
commands you use? Mostly curiosity, I'm always trying to learn more about
the interals of Gentoo :)

- Dave
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