Handbook Talk:Parts/Blocks/DesigningPartitionScheme

Size of Gentoo repository
Consider the following sentence: "the Gentoo repository alone takes around 500 MB excluding the various sources that are stored in it."

On my system:

I think the size of the Gentoo repository should be updated. Fturco (talk) 18:11, 13 May 2017 (UTC)


 * First, I believe this statement is supposed to be excluding the and  directories, so that would make the size much smaller:


 * This shows the in-text reference is still about 150MB off, so I will increase the reference to 650MBs and clarify and  directories are not included in this disk space estimate. --Maffblaster (talk) 18:33, 15 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Well my number actually excludes distfiles and packages since I put them in and  respectively, which are not subdirectories of . Anyway I update my Gentoo repository with git, not rsync. sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo Fturco (talk) 07:27, 16 May 2017 (UTC)