Ognjen Bezanov schreef: > I am trying to upgrade my gentoo box but the partition where /var/tmp > resides is too full. > > So I tried making a symbolic link to another disk which had a lot of > space, but then gentoo refused to compile, giving me permission errors. > > So im asking, how can you use /var/tmp on another disk. I dont want to > dedicate the whole disk and mount it to /var, so using links (or > possibly giving portage a differnt path) would be better. > > thanks >
You could also try cleaning /var/tmp out: /var/tmp/portage can be emptied in its entirety, but most of the folders there should not be taking up much space, as successfully completed emerges will leave only a couple of bytes or kilobytes inside the program's folder. However, if you have failed emerges, especially for large compiles like openoffice (not the bin), or xorg or something, the folder for that emerge will still be in /var/tmp/portage/program_name/temp/work, because the temporary work files are not deleted if the emerge fails. That can take up a whole lot of space (the emerge for OOo uses some 3GB temp space before completeion). So you might consider deleting any program folders in /var/tmp/portage for programs you know failed to compile and see if that helps. Or, of course you could change your PORTAGE_TMPDIR setting in /etc/make.conf and then change it back when you were done making whatever new arrangements you wanted for the default /var/tmp. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
