156726 – stages and portage archives pollute the disk

Bug 156726 - stages and portage archives pollute the disk

Summary: stages and portage archives pollute the disk

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Installation Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	nm (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2006-11-30 14:22 UTC by Jerome
Modified:	2006-12-03 15:11 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Jerome 2006-11-30 14:22:50 UTC

Before 5.e. step, we can save disk space (and reduce fragmentation) by removing stages and portage archives from disk.

Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-30 20:36:38 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Before 5.e. step, we can save disk space (and reduce fragmentation) by removing
> stages and portage archives from disk.
> 

It's better to leave them in, just in case something goes wrong and you have to boot back into your system. I know that I've had things go drastically wrong that required reinstallation from files on disk...this way, it saves bandwidth on the user and server ends. Nothing stops the user from removing them after successfully completing installation and rebooting.

Thanks for the thought, though.

Comment 2 Jerome 2006-12-03 14:32:14 UTC

Then propose it later,
on [11. Finalizing your Gentoo Installation] step,
when the system successfuly rebooted.

Comment 3 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-12-03 15:11:15 UTC

Fixed in CVS.

For the record, the snapshots don't take up *that* much space on disk. And fragmentation is really a non-issue: This is *Linux* we're talking about, not Windows. :)