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From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:24:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130223142415.GC3444@syscon7.inet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5128B8E2.5050304@googlemail.com>

On 02/23/13 13:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>>> tmpfs            949264    990   948274    1% /var/tmp/portage
>>>>
>>>> So, why I'm getting this message?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Your /var/tmp/portage is 10 MB! Increase that.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nilesh Govindarajan
>>> http://nileshgr.com
>>
>> How do I increase it?
>> I deleted all the file in /var/tmp/portage but after reboot the system
>> populate it again.
>> In fstab I have two entries:
>> ...
>> shm            /dev/shm    devtmpfs    nodev,nosuid,noexec    0 0
>> tmpfs         /var/tmp/portage     devtmpfs    defaults  0 0
>>
>> should I just comment them out?
>>
>
>no,
>
>you should change it to this:
>tmpfs                   /var/tmp/portage tmpfs          rw,size=8G      0 0
>
>play around with size. Usually 2GB is more than enough. Except for
>libreoffice.
>Then umount /var/tmp/portage and mount it again.

I have only 8Gb of RAM should I dedicate it all for tmpfs or only 2GB

-- 
Joseph


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-23 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-23  5:00 [gentoo-user] No space left on device ? Joseph
2013-02-23  5:38 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-02-23  6:05   ` Joseph
2013-02-23  6:17     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-23  6:23       ` Joseph
2013-02-23 23:40         ` Peter Humphrey
2013-02-23  6:21     ` Joseph
2013-02-23  8:52       ` Neil Bothwick
2013-02-23 12:42         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-02-23 14:16         ` Joseph
2013-02-23 14:24           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-02-23 15:44             ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-23 18:21               ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-02-23 23:25               ` Peter Humphrey
2013-02-24  8:46                 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-23 12:41     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-02-23 14:24       ` Joseph [this message]
2013-02-23 14:54         ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-23 15:46           ` Alex Schuster

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