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carpman
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 Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 9:06 am Post subject: emerge x run out of disk space |
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Hello, i have tried to emerge x, 10 hrs later it repots it has run out of space.
df -h shows that / is 1.4gb in size and 1.5gb is used.
how much space does this thing need?
I have a partition /home which is 1.8gb
How can i get this thing to install?
What happens when i get a few other software packages installed and / availble space is less?
This is a clean first install with only base packages installed |
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kirill
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 9:30 am Post subject: Re: emerge x run out of disk space |
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| carpman wrote: | Hello, i have tried to emerge x, 10 hrs later it repots it has run out of space.
df -h shows that / is 1.4gb in size and 1.5gb is used. |
Doh. Did it eat up more disk than was available? 
| Quote: | | how much space does this thing need? |
emerge xfree needs somewhat 800-900MB of disk space from my experience. It will take some ~100-200MB after it is installed. It's those temporary compile files that take all those several hundred of MB's.
| Quote: | | I have a partition /home which is 1.8gb |
Next time installing xfree or some other big packages (kde,mozilla) set your PORTAGE_TMPDIR to point to /home:
| Code: | # export PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/home
# emerge xfree |
export PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/home will create directory /home/portage and xfree will be compiled there.
In the mean while delete the default PORTAGE_TMPDIR to gain some MBs back 
| Code: | | # rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/ |
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carpman
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 10:35 am Post subject: |
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thanks for reply, that is what df -h displayed, thought it strange myself using more space then availbale.
I will try your advice. |
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