On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:19:29PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Remy Blank wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > What you can't do, and to my knowledge no regular fs can do, is to > > > *reduce* a mounted partition > > > > But who would want to do that? I always need *more* space, not less > > ;-) > > emerged openoffice lately? :-) > > It pretty much always fails if you have <5G in /var/tmp/portage. On a > laptop, that's 8% of my total disk space just sitting there free > waiting for the day I emerge openoffice again. Umounting /var to reduce > it is such a huge pita that I made /var/tmp/portage a separate volume > and now reduce it at will.
Drifting back onto the thread topic (is that allowed here<g>?) having /var use part of a common pool (what's left over after swap and a 500 meg / partition) avoids that problem altogether, rather than band-aiding it. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
