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ext 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?
Building OOo from source takes about 2.5-3G, depending on version. I use a 3G logical volume mounted on /gentootmp. You have to set PORTAGE_TMP_DIR in /etc/make.conf accordingly. This way, you can live with a relatively small /var (a few hundred megs).
HTH...
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