On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> 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). > -- > Regards, > Mick > Copy /var/tmp/portage to the partition that you have space, then use 'bind' command to mount. Kfir
