On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:02:34AM +0100, Mick wrote: > 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).
You can mount --bind a dir from a large partition to /var/tmp/portage before an emerge, but you can't do that during a running emerge. However with a reasonable buildsystem, you could in theory stop the emerge, copy over the files in /var/tmp/portage to new location (preserving timestamps) and then try resuming the emerge with FEATURES="keepwork noclean", though i don't know if that works well with openoffice... Also you don't have to mount anything to /var/tmp/portage, you can just change the dir by setting PORTAGE_TMPDIR to a directory on a partition with enough space (I normally have my DISTDIR, PKGDIR and PORTAGE_TMP set on a different partition...) yoyo
