Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/02/2013 01:25, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 23 February 2013 15:44:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: The number of people who completely and totally misread the simple instructions about upgrading udev is spectacular. Even I did it, and I'm ashamed to admit it too. At least I managed to

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portagedevtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 Why are you using devtmpfs? You should be using tmpfs for this, which defaults to half your available RAM. devtmpfs is a special option

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 07:05, schrieb Joseph: On 02/23/13 11:08, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Saturday 23 February 2013 10:30:04 AM IST, Joseph wrote: I'm trying to update one of my system and running: emerge -uDNavq world I get a very strange message: No space left on device' I have plenty of room

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 09:52, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs/var/tmp/portagedevtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 Why are you using devtmpfs? You should be using tmpfs for this, which defaults to half your

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Joseph
On 02/23/13 08:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portagedevtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 Why are you using devtmpfs? You should be using tmpfs for this, which defaults to half your available

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Joseph
On 02/23/13 13:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: tmpfs949264990 9482741% /var/tmp/portage So, why I'm getting this message? Your /var/tmp/portage is 10 MB! Increase that. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com How do I increase it? I deleted all the file in

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 15:16, schrieb Joseph: On 02/23/13 08:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portage devtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 Why are you using devtmpfs? You should be using tmpfs for this,

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.02.2013 15:24, schrieb Joseph: On 02/23/13 13:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: play around with size. Usually 2GB is more than enough. Except for libreoffice. Then umount /var/tmp/portage and mount it again. I have only 8Gb of RAM should I dedicate it all for tmpfs or only 2GB

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/02/2013 16:24, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 23.02.2013 15:16, schrieb Joseph: On 02/23/13 08:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portage devtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 Why are you using

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: tmpfs uses as much memory as necessary and nothing more. In theory, it doesn't hurt to add all your memory to it as tmpfs will start to swap when you run out of memory. However, it is usually a better idea to unmount the tmpfs and use a regular file system whenever you

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 16:44, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 23/02/2013 16:24, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 23.02.2013 15:16, schrieb Joseph: On 02/23/13 08:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portage devtmpfs

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 23 February 2013 15:44:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: The number of people who completely and totally misread the simple instructions about upgrading udev is spectacular. Even I did it, and I'm ashamed to admit it too. At least I managed to realise my mistake and correct it without

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 23 February 2013 06:23:59 Joseph wrote: I have 8Gb of RAM so I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portagedevtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 now it is going. I think you've confused yourself. /var/tmp/portage is portage's working sandbox - where it

[gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-22 Thread Joseph
I'm trying to update one of my system and running: emerge -uDNavq world I get a very strange message: No space left on device' Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 48, in module retval = emerge_main() File

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-22 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Saturday 23 February 2013 10:30:04 AM IST, Joseph wrote: I'm trying to update one of my system and running: emerge -uDNavq world I get a very strange message: No space left on device' Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-22 Thread Joseph
On 02/23/13 11:08, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Saturday 23 February 2013 10:30:04 AM IST, Joseph wrote: I'm trying to update one of my system and running: emerge -uDNavq world I get a very strange message: No space left on device' I have plenty of room left on the HD df -h Filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-22 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/23/13 11:08, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Saturday 23 February 2013 10:30:04 AM IST, Joseph wrote: I'm trying to update one of my system and running: emerge -uDNavq world I get a very strange message: No space left on

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-22 Thread Joseph
On 02/22/13 23:05, Joseph wrote: tmpfs949264990 9482741% /var/tmp/portage So, why I'm getting this message? Your /var/tmp/portage is 10 MB! Increase that. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com How do I increase it? I deleted all the file in /var/tmp/portage but

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-22 Thread Joseph
On 02/23/13 00:17, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: tmpfs /var/tmp/portagedevtmpfsdefaults 0 0 should I just comment them out? Comment the second and reboot, /var/tmp/portage will be a normal directory in your hard drive. However, having only 10MB left in a tmpfs mount

[gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
...to delete contents of /var/tmp/portage/. ? I run out of resources ;) thank you very much for any helpful reply in advance! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: ...to delete contents of /var/tmp/portage/. ? I run out of resources ;) thank you very much for any helpful reply in advance! mcc Yes you can, if you're not emerging something. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Jason Weisberger
Yeah you can delete the contents of that folder no problem. It's just the leftover compiles and source, probably taking up gigabytes of space.-- Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed... Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 15:00:39 -0400 Oh yeah! That saves me 0.1kEUR for a new harddisc! :) A.Einstein said : tmp is relative! so...I should believe in his words :O))) Thanks a lot! Have

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 May 2006 15:00:39 -0400, Jason Weisberger wrote: Yeah you can delete the contents of that folder no problem. It's just the leftover compiles and source, probably taking up gigabytes of space. Portage normally cleans up after itself, so there should only be a few MB at most in

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device: Am I allowed...

2006-05-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: ...to delete contents of /var/tmp/portage/. ? Yes, go ahead and delete it. /var/tmp/portage is, where packages get built. Alexander Skwar -- Tussman's Law: Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list