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.
Don't know your experience with Gentoo
Complete newbie. I chose the relative partition sizes on the basis of 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?