WORD OF WARNING. I HAVE NEVER DONE THIS!!!!! I think it is in make.conf. Looks something like this:
># PORTAGE_TMPDIR is the location portage will use for compilations and ># temporary storage of data. This can get VERY large depending upon ># the application being installed. >#PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp > I would assume you would change that to say PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/mnt/data or whereever you have the most space. Don't forget to remove the "#" though. May want to change it back afterwords too. It got really big on mine. It was likely about 4 or 5GBs before it was done. My / went from 18% to something like 30%. It is a 15GB partition. I did delete some other files, about 1GBs worth though. I didn't realize it was the compile at first. Sort of freaked me out. Hope you don't bork your rig. Dale :-) Jeff Cranmer wrote: >I thought it was fully compiled, but I didn't check back before I closed >the compile window (my bad). There are only 3.5GB free on my \var >directory, so it's possible. > >I tried replacing the /var/tmp/portage directory with a symlink to my >data drive to a directory owned by portage (group and user) on that >drive, but portage failed to compile on that directory, quoting acces >denied errors as it tried to create the necessary temporary directories. > >What is the correct way to set portage up to compile on another drive? > >Thanks > >Jeff > > > >On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 22:10 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >>Richard Fish wrote: >> >> >> >>>If you are compiling from source, you will need _at least_ 4G of free >>>space for PORTAGE_TMPDIR at the start of the merge. >>> >>>-Richard >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>He is not kidding either. My /var is on my / partition and that puppy >>got big while compiling OOo. It's back to normal now though. It just >>needs the extra space during the compile is all. >> >>That is a similair error to what I got from KDE when it crashed on >>another rig. It makes sense at least. >> >>Dale >>:-) >> >>-- >>To err is human, I'm most certainly human. >> >> >> >>-- >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> > > > -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
