On Monday 25 July 2011 11:02:34 Mick did opine thusly: > 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).
Mount that spare partition at /var/tmp/portage emerge openoffice umount that spare partition -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
