Depending on your available ram and swap space, you might want to mount
/var/tmp/portage as tmpfs. My fstab entry shows
none /var/tmp/portage tmpfs size=10g,nr_inodes=1m
I have 4GB ram, and the speed benefit especially for open/libre-office is quite
impressive.
The advantage is, that it
a) uses only as much of memory as is really used
b) you may use mount option -remount to increase the size of the filesystem,
and add proper swapfiles if you see that you're running out of space (mkswap,
swapon)
Greetings,
Alex
Am Montag, 25. Juli 2011, 12:02:34 schrieb Mick:
> After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave the
> usual office suite warnings at the beginning that there isn't enough space
> in /var (I have 5.8G and it was asking for more than 7G+).
>
> Half way through the emerge I noticed that I have only 74M left and is
> going down fast! O_O
>
> OpenOffice was able to emerge in the past using this partition size without
> a problem. I've flushed logs and what not to free some space, but I'm
> thinking of extending the partition somehow. I don't run LVM on this
> machine so that's not a solution for this circumstance.
>
> Is there anything I can do with mount --rbind and could I do this in the
> middle of an emerge? I have another partition with loads of space in it,
> but it has a different fs on it (reiser4 instead of /var's ext4).
