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On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 12:19:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> emerged openoffice lately? :-) |
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> It pretty much always fails if you have <5G in /var/tmp/portage. On a |
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> laptop, that's 8% of my total disk space just sitting there free |
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> waiting for the day I emerge openoffice again. Umounting /var to reduce |
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> it is such a huge pita that I made /var/tmp/portage a separate volume |
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> and now reduce it at will. |
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Or point PORTAGE_TMPDIR to another partition. I have a partition that I |
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use for large temporary files, be they ISO images, video files or portage |
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build directories. That leaves /var free for important stuff. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Never knock on Death's door. Ring the doorbell and run. He hates that. |
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