On Freitag, 7. November 2003 11:51, 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?
Since it holde the sources and is used to compile the packages. > I thought 2GB would be overkill. Was I wrong? yep. > What can I do to clean it out? Leave it. > Should I make a larger partition for /var? yep. I did this: 1. make a 5 GB partition. 2. mount my new 5GB partitions as something (add it to /etc/fstab) 3. move the complete /var/tmp directory to something, so that it would become /something/tmp 4. make a symlink: ln -s /something/tmp /var/tmp 5. restart the emerge again: works nicely then. :-) After it finished running most of the rubbish in /something/tmp got erased automatically. HTH, Karl-Heinz -- Karl-Heinz Zimmer, Senior Software Engineer, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken, 1880 - 1956 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
