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