emerge -u gnome mozilla openoffice kde
it chugged for about 48 hours then came up with "no more disk space available" and sure enough, stat -f . from / showed that my 5 GB linux root partition was full.
Most of the space seems to be taken up by /var/tmp which I can't clear out with rmdir because there are hundreds of subdirectories under that all apparently full of files.
I've tried moving /var/tmp to /tmp to see if the clean up /tmp function cleans it up. It does not.
Now that I've resized my windows partition, I have a 2GB wad of unallocated space just before the (full) Linux root partition, but I can't seem to add any of that free space to the full root partition. Partition Magic won't let me do it from Windows, and parted is not found in linux. fdisk tells me I have to delete a partition before I can add another one. I'm reluctant to do that because if I re-install W2K on this PC, the proprietary install CD for W2K that came with this PC will completely reformat the hard drive and set it up as a single partition for the use of Windows. If I delete one of the linux partitions, I suspect I'll have to go through the 4-day linux re-install.
Is there another way to get around this? I need to be able to delete the /var/tmp directory to free up some disk space or to merge the unallocated 2 GB wad into the existing (full) linux root partition.
Is there a problem with the install procedure? Does it really take more than 5 GB to install all this? I notice there are a huge wad of games directories in
My current partition layout is: (mostly from the fdisk p command)
/dev/hda1 bootable 1 268 2152678+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 bootable 269 273 40162+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 274 336 506047+ 82 Linux swap unallocated space 337 578 /dev/hda4 579 1245 5357677+ 83 Linux
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