S wrote:

> Would you recommend to set these 2 directories (distfiles, packages) on
> FAT32 partition?
>
> Sometimes it facilitates swapping those binary files (wich are of time-
> consuming downloads/compilations) between computers, especially when they
> are multiboot ones and sometimes they run MSwindows ...
>
> Anyways, is there any risk of using FAT32 specifically for these two
> directories (assuming all other partitions are ext3)?
>
For distfiles, some of them need to be made executable. I'm not sure if this
is done after download or before unpacking, so you might be ok.