On Sat, December 17, 2011 2:37 am, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
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3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use
PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and
Webb suggested /z for extra space.
Allan,
Just a
On Tue, Dec 20 2011, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Sat, December 17, 2011 2:37 am, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
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3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use
PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and
Webb
On 2011-12-17 05:59, Dale wrote:
Has anyone else noticed this? I upgraded this a while back and I didn't
use anywhere near this amount of space. I'm curious as to why Allan's is
using so much.
Perhaps you should compare USE flags? And if you are using the same
version, 32-bit/64-bit, CPU
On Sat, Dec 17 2011, pk wrote:
On 2011-12-17 05:59, Dale wrote:
Has anyone else noticed this? I upgraded this a while back and I didn't
use anywhere near this amount of space. I'm curious as to why Allan's is
using so much.
Perhaps you should compare USE flags? And if you are using the
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
On Sat, Dec 17 2011, pk wrote:
On 2011-12-17 05:59, Dale wrote:
Has anyone else noticed this? I upgraded this a while back and I didn't
use anywhere near this amount of space. I'm curious as to why Allan's is
using so much.
Perhaps you should compare USE flags? And if
111216 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use
PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and
Webb suggested /z for extra space.
So I made a normal linux ext3 partition on sda8, created the mount point
/mnt/junk and when
On Sat, Dec 17 2011, Philip Webb wrote:
111216 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use
PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and
Webb suggested /z for extra space.
So I made a normal linux ext3 partition on sda8,
111215 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I need to add space to /var -- thank you, libreoffice -- ,
which is on lvm. Since my one volume group vg is getting low,
I thought this would be a good time to extend it as well ...
phy vol:pvcreate /dev/sda8
...
I have long had my own extra var-type dir,
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:41:07 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Friday 16 December 2011 03:18:16 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm.
Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a
good time to extend it as well.
On Dec 16, 2011 5:05 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:41:07 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Friday 16 December 2011 03:18:16 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm.
Since my one volume group vg is
On Thu, Dec 15 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm.
Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a
good time to extend it as well.
Alan (McKinnon) has posted very helpful lvm bits (reprinted below).
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm.
Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a
good time to extend it as well.
Alan (McKinnon) has posted very helpful lvm bits
On Fri, Dec 16 2011, Dale wrote:
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
One more thing. Some readers were suggesting I need 8 or so GB for
libreoffice. The failures occurred with 13GB. Today's /mnt/junk
success required 16GB. Fortunately sda8 has 50GB.
Dang !!
pkg_pretend() {
if [[ ${MERGE_TYPE}
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16 2011, Dale wrote:
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
One more thing. Some readers were suggesting I need 8 or so GB for
libreoffice. The failures occurred with 13GB. Today's /mnt/junk
success required 16GB. Fortunately sda8 has 50GB.
Dang !!
pkg_pretend() {
On Fri, Dec 16 2011, Dale wrote:
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16 2011, Dale wrote:
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
One more thing. Some readers were suggesting I need 8 or so GB for
libreoffice. The failures occurred with 13GB. Today's /mnt/junk
success required 16GB. Fortunately sda8 has
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I had 13GB left on /var when it died at which point /var had zero.
I made a new partition (/mnt/junk) with nothing else on it and built
libreoffice there.
In another terminal I ran
while true
do
df -h /mnt/junk | grep junk
sleep 300
done
df began at 0GB and grew
I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm.
Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a
good time to extend it as well.
Alan (McKinnon) has posted very helpful lvm bits (reprinted below).
Following alan's bottom up creation mandate I believe
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm.
Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a
good time to extend it as well.
Alan (McKinnon) has posted very helpful lvm bits (reprinted below).
Following alan's bottom up
On Friday 16 December 2011 03:18:16 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm.
Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a
good time to extend it as well.
Actually, you need space in /var/tmp/portage
Alan (McKinnon)
J. Roeleveld wrote:
If it's just temporary for LibreOffice, I'd suggest making a temporary
LV, mount it at /var/tmp/portage and then emerging the software. Then
when finished, umount and remove the LV. I see no need to have /var
really large for normal use and have never tried shrinking
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