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On Monday 25 July 2011 11:02:34 Mick did opine thusly: |
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> After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave |
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> the usual office suite warnings at the beginning that there isn't |
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> enough space in /var (I have 5.8G and it was asking for more than |
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> 7G+). |
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> Half way through the emerge I noticed that I have only 74M left and |
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> is going down fast! O_O |
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> OpenOffice was able to emerge in the past using this partition size |
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> without a problem. I've flushed logs and what not to free some |
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> space, but I'm thinking of extending the partition somehow. I |
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> don't run LVM on this machine so that's not a solution for this |
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> circumstance. |
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> Is there anything I can do with mount --rbind and could I do this in |
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> the middle of an emerge? I have another partition with loads of |
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> space in it, but it has a different fs on it (reiser4 instead of |
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> /var's ext4). |
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Mount that spare partition at /var/tmp/portage |
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emerge openoffice |
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umount that spare partition |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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