From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MFPEH-0004Rd-5j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:08:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28FF4E0442; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:08:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6E2E0442 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:08:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so837608ewy.34 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:08:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=Kt/GetjHJ61U5jW1MRGz1B2SChU8Vf49HqyW+B3fiPA=; b=Rs0h3n9UgJl1ypcs8DPke2oZRNORzujSsrt1Fhy6Fqi1eeUbKrTViVMFk7d+Z9GJYM 16vE4PVr9k3iQrp6MQDAO8PkQ+T3IJURGeM8Z6kwe782qo1Lx54+CmUHBR+vdIcqgFsb 8pJVQEzt/nWEUbQfsnq6EO3odFyx50TsYJYpQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=VedOV7kc9Kgcmc/w5lUyvZIOdfite4d5mg3wSTwAv0WLEJcM/Xx4G711B2Kd8OiJ8I ZwLqZMFp7fZUG7DnCpFKnBOdvdW0RQ4eE8JEs7mrYm3sMAxa3hNT7UufCJYrk74cDcQg D3LmoK4JusmJuh+F+vd7d8UGyrV1yJRDV3ncw= Received: by 10.210.115.17 with SMTP id n17mr1835289ebc.55.1244884126346; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:08:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm1628765eyg.44.2009.06.13.02.08.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:08:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on / Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:07:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <200906122156.04975.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200906122224.29621.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> In-Reply-To: <200906122224.29621.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906131107.09101.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 555dd2d2-d89a-47bc-8867-8053df093184 X-Archives-Hash: 9a544c8c00c17ef824a905d3d44cfe2e On Friday 12 June 2009 22:24:29 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 21:56:04 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > There's a few guidlelines one can give (but only a few). The variables > > tend to be large than the amounts with guidelines though. > > > > /var/tmp/portage should be at least 1G on a modern system, 6G+ if > > building mozilla stuff and OOo is something you intend to do. > > BTW: OOo 3.1 seems to raise the bar to 8.5G. So it's getting worse... I have 6.5G free in /var and rebuilt latest OOo recently. My USE for OOo is pretty restrictive though - no gnome, kde, mono -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com