Hi all,
Gentoo is awesome. Didn't know a new version came out. Might install it this weekend, although #alug will laugh and poke fun at me ;)
On 12/06/2009, Dan Hatton vi5u0-alug@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Jim Rippon wrote:
Sounds like your var partition had filled up perhaps
Hmm... df never showed it more than 20% full, although perhaps I just didn't run df at the right time.
what size was the partition you had mounted?
IIRC, 12GB, so not _that_ small.
I've had openoffice 3 fill up about 4 GB out of my root fs... so the compilation actually errored out.
current disc usage on my Fedora box, along with a vague idea that having a small /var would stop malfunctioning processes filling up my hard disc by writing lots of rubbish into /var/log.
but it extracts package sources under /var/tmp/portage/$(package_name) and compiles them therein so you need to have a fair amount of space in /var in order to extract/build larger packages (openoffice, firefox, kernel etc).
I'm tempted to make /var/tmp/portage a symlink to something in the root filesystem, then. Is there any reason that would be enormously stupid?
What I did was to mount -o bind /var/tmp/portage /home/srdjant/portage, as I had a lot more space in /home/
Then I waited for about 2 days for openoffice 3 to compile ;P (2 GHz core 2 duo, 2GB ram)
Srdjan