Hello, The hard disk of my laptop has no more space and it is highly fragmented (~6%). Could you please propose to optionnaly install "tmpwatch" it in the following section of the handbook: Installing Gentoo/ 9. Installing Necessary System Tools Thanks. Reproducible: Always
Thanks for the suggestion, but this chapter is about installing only what's absolutely critical for boot and getting online -- filesystem and networking tools and a system logger. These are actually what's provided on any GRP/installer LiveCD media too, thus another reason for mentioning only what's available on media. I don't think we should add anything on this package; it just doesn't fit within the scope of the chapters. It's not essential, nor is it even keyworded for all our architectures that use this handbook page.
Ok, then maybe in FAQ as "How to save disk space" ?
(In reply to comment #2) > Ok, then maybe in FAQ as > "How to save disk space" ? Probably not. Using tmpwatch is still bad for performance, as it doesn't play well with noatime filesystem options; it forces you to turn on atime -- and atime really kills performance, which is why it's usually off by default. tmpwatch is not a way to save diskspace in and of itself. especially not when it forces the user to activate even less desirable options.
(In reply to comment #3) > Probably not. Using tmpwatch is still bad for performance, as it doesn't play > well with noatime filesystem options; it forces you to turn on atime -- and > atime really kills performance, which is why it's usually off by default. For an interesting talk about noatime, see [1]. And tmpwatch can be used with the --mtime option. [1] http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148
