Device full when emerging

He-man · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 1

Hi!
I've just made a clean stage2 install. Now, when a try to emerge xfree I get (after awhile) a device full, exitcode 2, message. My partitions are:
boot: 20Mb
root: 1400Mb
swap: 200Mb

I got 512Mb of ram. I don't know which partition that got full, but I think it was the root one, becouse it happend while writing a font file.

I guess I could use the GRP-version of X, but I rather not, and i don't won't to change the partition size.

Anyone know a solution to this? Maybe a way to tell emerge to use less diskspace will compiling?

phong · Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 2:54 pm Post subject:

X (among other things) takes up TONS of space during compilation. Probably 2G for the / partition should be considered a minimum for installing it. You may be able to sqeeze out a little more space by clearing out /tmp, /var/tmp, and other packages from /usr/portage/distfiles.
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Slyvr · Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 3:10 pm Post subject:

Also make sure / is really mounted on your 1400MB partition. I recently was installing Gentoo 1.4 RC2 and ran out of space on the install using:

200MB /root
14.5GB /
256MB swap

15 gig and I'm out of space?!? Turned out I'd accidently reversed my / and swap partitions when mounting them. Doh!
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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fghellar · Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 7:02 pm Post subject: