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Operating Systems Linux Looking for a very leightweight Live-CD Distro Post 302523407 by Corona688 on Wednesday 18th of May 2011 09:10:24 PM
Old 05-18-2011
I would not call Gentoo a 'minimal' installation in terms of space. In one sense it's minimal, you get to choose your own software and features, but it builds its own kernel, which that takes considerable space to do in of itself, and the portage tree is another gig or more depending on your filesystem. I've installed an entire Gentoo system it in 1GB or so before but that required dirty tricks like unionfs+cramfs filesystems.

You could install putting /usr/src, /usr/portage, and /var/db/pkg on external filesystems though, and just unplug that when you're done, which will remove the space bloat.
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

remote-filesystems

remote-filesystems(7)					 Miscellaneous Information Manual				     remote-filesystems(7)

NAME

       remote-filesystems - event signalling that remote filesystems have been mounted

SYNOPSIS

       local-filesystems [ENV]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  remote-filesystems event is generated by the mountall(8) daemon after it has mounted all remote filesystems listed in fstab(5).  moun-
       tall(8) emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so in parallel with  other
       activity.

       This event is typically used by services that must be started to manage remote filesystems.  When it occurs, local filesystems such as /usr
       may not be mounted.  For most normal services the filesystem(7) event is sufficient.

       This event will never occur before the virtual-filesystems(7) event.

EXAMPLE

       A service that wishes to be running once remote filesystems are mounted might use:

	      start on remote-filesystems

SEE ALSO

       mounting(7) mounted(7) virtual-filesystems(7) local-filesystems(7) all-swaps(7) filesystem(7)

mountall							    2009-12-21						     remote-filesystems(7)
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