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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:15:02 +0200
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On Monday 25 July 2011 11:02:34 Mick did opine thusly:
> After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave
> the usual office suite warnings at the beginning that there isn't
> enough space in /var (I have 5.8G and it was asking for more than
> 7G+).
>
> Half way through the emerge I noticed that I have only 74M left and
> is going down fast! O_O
>
> OpenOffice was able to emerge in the past using this partition size
> without a problem. I've flushed logs and what not to free some
> space, but I'm thinking of extending the partition somehow. I
> don't run LVM on this machine so that's not a solution for this
> circumstance.
>
> Is there anything I can do with mount --rbind and could I do this in
> the middle of an emerge? I have another partition with loads of
> space in it, but it has a different fs on it (reiser4 instead of
> /var's ext4).
Mount that spare partition at /var/tmp/portage
emerge openoffice
umount that spare partition
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com