> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Henk Boom > Sent: 08 January 2007 16:23 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Out of space during emerge > > > Hi, after my latest emerge -uDN world I discovered that I had ran out > of disk space on my root partition. It was causing problems, so I > immediately did an eclean-dist --destructive, which freed up a couple > hundred megabytes. > Is it unusual that I lost about 500 megabytes net in the past couple > of weeks due to upgrades? Also, how do I know whether or not any of > the packages installed were mangled by having run out of disk space? > > Thanks in advance, > Henk Boom > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
Hi. You may have built up a collection of downloaded packages in /usr/portage/distfiles if you have been upgrading regularly. I would recommend running revdep-rebuild which will check to see if any packages are missing dependancies and will re-emerge those missing. David Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
