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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Out of space during emerge
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:10:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070108171057.5b8a02e6@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf61a1ea0701080822h7a7b9d74g269c34e1f0aa45c8@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:22:58 -0500, Henk Boom wrote:

> Hi, after my latest emerge -uDN world I discovered that I had ran out
> of disk space on my root partition. It was causing problems, so I
> immediately did an eclean-dist --destructive, which freed up a couple
> hundred megabytes.

I recommend that you put $DISTDIR (and $PORTAGE_TMPDIR) on a less
critical partition. Running out of space on / or /var is not very nice.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers
believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet."

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-08 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-08 16:22 [gentoo-user] Out of space during emerge Henk Boom
2007-01-08 16:29 ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)
2007-01-08 16:34 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-01-08 16:52   ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
2007-01-08 17:10 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2007-01-08 21:33   ` [gentoo-user] " Dale

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