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 > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list