From d2f74ed38b1fc60aca94cd00bede81e65e2209c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: moeller Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:29:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Some more insights for the README. git-svn-id: svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/cran2deb@356 edb9625f-4e0d-4859-8d74-9fd3b1da38cb --- trunk/inst/doc/README | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/trunk/inst/doc/README b/trunk/inst/doc/README index df34bfd..3609adf 100644 --- a/trunk/inst/doc/README +++ b/trunk/inst/doc/README @@ -235,6 +235,28 @@ To think about apt-cache search r-cran-$a done +3. If running on a separate partition, the place reserved for cran2deb is not unlikely + to exceed your expectation, especially when also running BioConductor. You may + consider running cran2deb on logical volumes, like by LVM. Together with a file + system that allows its extension, the process is rather straight forward: + + # lvextend -L+40G /dev/vg0/cran2deb + Extending logical volume cran2deb to 115.04 GiB + Logical volume cran2deb successfully resized + # xfs_growfs /dev/vg0/cran2deb + meta-data=/dev/dm-6 isize=256 agcount=21, agsize=983040 blks + = sectsz=512 attr=2 + data = bsize=4096 blocks=19671040, imaxpct=25 + = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks + naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 + log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=2560, version=2 + = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1 + realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 + data blocks changed from 19671040 to 30156800 + + The directory does not even need to unmounted for that with XFS. + + To debug: $ cran2deb help @@ -256,5 +278,5 @@ database. It's a backup that can be versioned by SVN. There is a script called pull that, when run from the data directory will recreate all the files from the database EXCEPT for the licenses. The licenses cannot be recreated because licenses can be based on one-way hashes. This process could certainly be -improved. +improved. But one gets the hang of it ater a while. So don't despair. -- 2.39.2