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 1RbxlG-0004Lb-6g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:09:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CF8521C1DD; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5186721C024 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-182de1a5.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.225.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pBHH87um006860 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:08:07 -0500 (EST) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 1F9847009A; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:07:59 -0500 (EST) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes References: <20111217164701.GA3236@ca.inter.net> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:07:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20111217164701.GA3236@ca.inter.net> (Philip Webb's message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:47:01 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: c6e51a9e-6b04-452d-936f-a2027397a737 X-Archives-Hash: f0cbe3df0362b4d485e715f0936b2470 On Sat, Dec 17 2011, Philip Webb wrote: > 111216 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> 3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use >> PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and >> Webb suggested /z for extra space. >> So I made a normal linux ext3 partition on sda8, created the mount point >> /mnt/junk and when needed mount sda8 on /mnt/junk and set PORTAGE_TMPDIR >> accordingly. > > I have /z mounted by default at boot-time, but it's the same idea. > >> Some readers were suggesting I need 8 or so GB for libreoffice. >> The failures occurred with 13GB. >> Today's /mnt/junk success required 16GB. Fortunately sda8 has 50GB. > > Libreoffice-3.5.0.0 needed 4,19 GB by the final stages; > I had 12 GB available in /z at that time. > > Eix gives me : > > app-office/libreoffice > Available versions: 3.3.4!t 3.4.3.2-r1!t > ~3.4.4.2-r1!t **3.4.9999-r2!t ~3.5.0.0 **3.5.9999 **9999-r2 > {aqua bash-completion binfilter +branding cups (-)custom-cflags dbus d= ebug eds elibc_FreeBSD gnome (+)graphite gstreamer (+)gtk gtk3 java (+)jema= lloc kde kdeenablefinal ldap linguas_af linguas_ar linguas_as linguas_ast l= inguas_be_BY linguas_bg linguas_bn linguas_bo linguas_br linguas_brx lingua= s_bs linguas_ca linguas_ca_XV linguas_cs linguas_cy linguas_da linguas_de l= inguas_dgo linguas_dz linguas_el linguas_en linguas_en_GB linguas_en_US lin= guas_en_ZA linguas_eo linguas_es linguas_et linguas_eu linguas_fa linguas_f= i linguas_fr linguas_ga linguas_gd linguas_gl linguas_gu linguas_he linguas= _hi linguas_hr linguas_hu linguas_id linguas_is linguas_it linguas_ja lingu= as_ka linguas_kk linguas_km linguas_kn linguas_ko linguas_kok linguas_ks li= nguas_ku linguas_ky linguas_lo linguas_lt linguas_lv linguas_mai linguas_mk= linguas_ml linguas_mn linguas_mni linguas_mr linguas_ms linguas_my linguas= _nb linguas_ne linguas_nl linguas_nn linguas_nr linguas_ns linguas_oc lingu= as_om linguas_or linguas_pa_IN linguas_pap linguas_pl linguas_ps linguas_pt= linguas_pt_BR linguas_ro linguas_ru linguas_rw linguas_sa_IN linguas_sat l= inguas_sd linguas_sh linguas_si linguas_sk linguas_sl linguas_sq linguas_sr= linguas_ss linguas_st linguas_sv linguas_sw_TZ linguas_ta linguas_te lingu= as_tg linguas_th linguas_ti linguas_tn linguas_tr linguas_ts linguas_ug lin= guas_uk linguas_uz linguas_ve linguas_vi linguas_xh linguas_zh_CN linguas_z= h_TW linguas_zu mysql (+)nsplugin odk opengl pdfimport postgres python svg = templates test +vba (+)webdav +xmlsec} > Installed versions: 3.5.0.0([2011-12-12 04:03:36])(dbus gtk kde nsplugi= n opengl pdfimport svg -aqua -binfilter -branding -debug -eds -elibc_FreeBS= D -gnome -graphite -gstreamer -gtk3 -java -jemalloc -kdeenablefinal -mysql = -odk -postgres -test -vba -webdav -xmlsec) > > This is a 64-bit system with an Intel Core2 Duo processor. Pretty similar to mine, which needed 16GB. I can't explain, but I do have the disk space.