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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:02:34AM +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave the usual |
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> office suite warnings at the beginning that there isn't enough space in /var |
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> (I have 5.8G and it was asking for more than 7G+). |
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> Half way through the emerge I noticed that I have only 74M left and is going |
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> down fast! O_O |
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> OpenOffice was able to emerge in the past using this partition size without a |
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> problem. I've flushed logs and what not to free some space, but I'm thinking |
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> of extending the partition somehow. I don't run LVM on this machine so that's |
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> not a solution for this circumstance. |
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> Is there anything I can do with mount --rbind and could I do this in the |
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> middle of an emerge? I have another partition with loads of space in it, but |
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> it has a different fs on it (reiser4 instead of /var's ext4). |
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You can mount --bind a dir from a large partition to /var/tmp/portage |
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before an emerge, but you can't do that during a running emerge. However |
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with a reasonable buildsystem, you could in theory stop the emerge, copy |
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over the files in /var/tmp/portage to new location (preserving |
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timestamps) and then try resuming the emerge with FEATURES="keepwork |
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noclean", though i don't know if that works well with openoffice... |
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Also you don't have to mount anything to /var/tmp/portage, you can just |
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change the dir by setting PORTAGE_TMPDIR to a directory on a partition |
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with enough space (I normally have my DISTDIR, PKGDIR and PORTAGE_TMP set |
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on a different partition...) |
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yoyo |
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