Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

[Allan Gottlieb]

On Sat, Dec 17 2011, Philip Webb wrote:

> 111216 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> 3.  I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use
>>     PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and
>>     Webb suggested /z for extra space.
>> So I made a normal linux ext3 partition on sda8, created the mount point
>> /mnt/junk and when needed mount sda8 on /mnt/junk and set PORTAGE_TMPDIR
>> accordingly.
>
> I have  /z  mounted by default at boot-time, but it's the same idea.
>
>> Some readers were suggesting I need 8 or so GB for libreoffice.
>> The failures occurred with 13GB.
>> Today's /mnt/junk success required 16GB.  Fortunately sda8 has 50GB.
>
> Libreoffice-3.5.0.0 needed  4,19 GB  by the final stages;
> I had  12 GB  available in  /z  at that time.
>
> Eix gives me :
>
>   app-office/libreoffice
>   Available versions: 3.3.4!t 3.4.3.2-r1!t
>    ~3.4.4.2-r1!t **3.4.9999-r2!t ~3.5.0.0 **3.5.9999 **9999-r2
>    {aqua bash-completion binfilter +branding cups (-)custom-cflags dbus debug eds elibc_FreeBSD gnome (+)graphite gstreamer (+)gtk gtk3 java (+)jemalloc kde kdeenablefinal ldap linguas_af linguas_ar linguas_as linguas_ast linguas_be_BY linguas_bg linguas_bn linguas_bo linguas_br linguas_brx linguas_bs linguas_ca linguas_ca_XV linguas_cs linguas_cy linguas_da linguas_de linguas_dgo linguas_dz linguas_el linguas_en linguas_en_GB linguas_en_US linguas_en_ZA linguas_eo linguas_es linguas_et linguas_eu linguas_fa linguas_fi linguas_fr linguas_ga linguas_gd linguas_gl linguas_gu linguas_he linguas_hi linguas_hr linguas_hu linguas_id linguas_is linguas_it linguas_ja linguas_ka linguas_kk linguas_km linguas_kn linguas_ko linguas_kok linguas_ks linguas_ku linguas_ky linguas_lo linguas_lt linguas_lv linguas_mai linguas_mk linguas_ml linguas_mn linguas_mni linguas_mr linguas_ms linguas_my linguas_nb linguas_ne linguas_nl linguas_nn linguas_nr linguas_ns linguas_oc linguas_om linguas_or linguas_pa_IN linguas_pap linguas_pl linguas_ps linguas_pt linguas_pt_BR linguas_ro linguas_ru linguas_rw linguas_sa_IN linguas_sat linguas_sd linguas_sh linguas_si linguas_sk linguas_sl linguas_sq linguas_sr linguas_ss linguas_st linguas_sv linguas_sw_TZ linguas_ta linguas_te linguas_tg linguas_th linguas_ti linguas_tn linguas_tr linguas_ts linguas_ug linguas_uk linguas_uz linguas_ve linguas_vi linguas_xh linguas_zh_CN linguas_zh_TW linguas_zu mysql (+)nsplugin odk opengl pdfimport postgres python svg templates test +vba (+)webdav +xmlsec}
>   Installed versions: 3.5.0.0([2011-12-12 04:03:36])(dbus gtk kde nsplugin opengl pdfimport svg -aqua -binfilter -branding -debug -eds -elibc_FreeBSD -gnome -graphite -gstreamer -gtk3 -java -jemalloc -kdeenablefinal -mysql -odk -postgres -test -vba -webdav -xmlsec)
>
> This is a 64-bit system with an Intel Core2 Duo processor.

Pretty similar to mine, which needed 16GB.

I can't explain, but I do have the disk space.