[gentoo-user] Out of space during emerge

[gentoo-user] Out of space during emerge

[Henk Boom]

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.
Is it unusual  that I lost about 500 megabytes net in the past couple
of weeks due to upgrades? Also, how do I know whether or not any of
the packages installed were mangled by having run out of disk space?

Thanks in advance,
        Henk Boom
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RE: [gentoo-user] Out of space during emerge

[Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lunarcrisis@gmail.com [mailto:lunarcrisis@gmail.com]On Behalf Of
> Henk Boom
> Sent: 08 January 2007 16:23
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Out of space during emerge
> 
> 
> 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.
> Is it unusual  that I lost about 500 megabytes net in the past couple
> of weeks due to upgrades? Also, how do I know whether or not any of
> the packages installed were mangled by having run out of disk space?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>         Henk Boom
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> 
> 

Hi.

You may have built up a collection of downloaded packages in /usr/portage/distfiles if you have been upgrading regularly. I would recommend running revdep-rebuild which will check to see if any packages are missing dependancies and will re-emerge those missing.

David
Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Out of space during emerge

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:22:58 -0500 "Henk Boom" <lunarc.lists@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is it unusual  that I lost about 500 megabytes net in the past couple
> of weeks due to upgrades?

That will solely depend on your "world". Note that there might be some
packages for which there's a _slotted_ new version wich gets installed
at some upgrade points. A new slot means one more concurrent copy of the
application in question -- e.g. gcc, which can get big!

> Also, how do I know whether or not any of
> the packages installed were mangled by having run out of disk space?

What do you mean by "mangled"? Of course, logging might stop at some
point and some programs won't likely start at all. But there aren't
files deleted or stuff like that...

-hwh
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[gentoo-user] Re: Out of space during emerge

[Harm Geerts]

On Monday 08 January 2007 17:34, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:22:58 -0500 "Henk Boom" <lunarc.lists@gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > Is it unusual  that I lost about 500 megabytes net in the past couple
> > of weeks due to upgrades?
>
> That will solely depend on your "world". Note that there might be some
> packages for which there's a _slotted_ new version wich gets installed
> at some upgrade points. A new slot means one more concurrent copy of the
> application in question -- e.g. gcc, which can get big!

gcc is not that bad, but sys-kernel/*-sources really packs a punch.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Out of space during emerge

[Neil Bothwick]

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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.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Out of space during emerge

[Dale]

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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>   

He may can clean out the temp files too.  One that comes to mind first
is /var/tmp/portage.  Anything that failed to emerge is in there.  If he
has buildpkg in make.conf, then he may can clean out some of those too,
in /usr/portage/packages/All.  Let's not forget that some of the logs in
/var/log can have a bit of size to them too.  I'm assuming those are on
the same partition as root.

Hope some of this helps.  I have ran into this on a older machine myself.

Dale

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