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From: maxim wexler <blissfix@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:26:55
Message-Id: 20051010172122.28639.qmail@web31707.mail.mud.yahoo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place by "A. Khattri"
1 --- "A. Khattri" <ajai@××××.net> wrote:
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3 > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
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5 > > Hello everybody,
6 > >
7 > > That min-install I was talking about failed due to
8 > > lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a
9 > 3.2G
10 > > drive. Partitions are :
11 > > / of 1.47G ext2
12 > > /home 1.1G ext2
13 > > 500M swap
14 > > 100M /boot reiserfs
15 > >
16 > > I was going to use this disk to help
17 > diagnose/repair
18 > > the 120G which is down. I guess I don't really
19 > need a
20 > > /home dir. Is there someway to free up some space
21 > on
22 > > /home and make it available to /? I'd hate to have
23 > to
24 > > wipe the disk and start over; it took about two
25 > days
26 > > straight to download all the files at 2.8K over
27 > the
28 > > phone line!
29 >
30 > Maybe you can move /usr/portage and /tmp or /var/tmp
31 > to /home, set up some
32 > sym links and free up some space??
33 >
34 Thanks. Makes excellent sense. I'm goin in!
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