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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:07:09 +0200
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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

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