Goto /var and do :

sudo du -ks * | sort -n

And check which directory is overflooded. I'm guessing /var/log -> some 
process has gone wild and stuffed the log-dir full of stuff.

        ~/S


On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Aaron Walker wrote:

> I just installed gentoo for the first time earlier this week.  Got 
> everything up and running perfectly.  I am very impressed.  Anyways... I 
> ran 'emerge openoffice' last night before I left for work, and when I 
> came home there was an error. I went to emerge another package 
> (evolution) and immediatly got another error.  Upon rebooting I noticed 
> somewhere it said device is full, so I ran df and noticed that the 2GB 
> /var partition was full and I am assuming that is the reason I cannot 
> run emerge successfully.  Why is /var full already?  I thought 2GB would 
> be overkill. Was I wrong?  What can I do to clean it out?  Should I make 
> a larger partition for /var?
> 
> Thanks,
> Aaron
> 
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