Keats wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:11:06 -0300
> Allan Spagnol Comar <allan.comar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>My hole linux box has crashed !!!!
>>I made a system update yesterday with emerge -Du world....
>>
>>it update my apache, mantis, nagios, bind, mysql..... today my hole
>>system is against me....
>>I think in reinstall the full system .... has any one got a better
>>idea, my backups are unavailable now ....
> 
> 
> 
> are u sure that you have enough disk space ? 
> an update of the system may download a lot of files... 
> it happens when i have no space left, nothing work the gentoo is not
> able to boot. i have to boot on rescue disk and make space... 
> 

For this reason I put every directory that can grow during normal
operations outside to root partition so that I can boot although some
partition gets full.

Regards,
Petteri Räty