--- hb-install-amd64-disk.xml.orig 2005-12-19 14:45:10.000000000 -0800 +++ hb-install-amd64-disk.xml 2005-12-19 15:12:39.000000000 -0800 @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ -2.4 -2005-08-25 +2.5 +2005-12-19
Introduction to Block Devices @@ -209,8 +209,8 @@ For /var, people might think the assigned space is too much. However, Gentoo compiles all programs inside /var/tmp/portage, so you should have /var with at -least 1G free if you don't want to compile big programs and at least 3G free if -compiling KDE or OpenOffice.org is no big deal for you. +least 1G free if you don't want to compile big programs and at least 8G free if +you will be compiling extremely large programs.

--- hb-install-x86-disk.xml.orig 2005-12-19 14:28:37.000000000 -0800 +++ hb-install-x86-disk.xml 2005-12-19 15:19:27.000000000 -0800 @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ -2.4 -2005-08-25 +2.5 +2005-12-19
Introduction to Block Devices @@ -215,8 +215,8 @@ For /var, people might think the assigned space is too much. However, Gentoo compiles all programs inside /var/tmp/portage, so you should have /var with at -least 1G free if you don't want to compile big programs and at least 3G free if -compiling KDE or OpenOffice.org is no big deal for you. +least 1G free if you don't want to compile big programs and at least 8G free if +you will be compiling extremely large programs.

--- hb-install-sparc-disk.xml.orig 2005-12-19 14:49:37.000000000 -0800 +++ hb-install-sparc-disk.xml 2005-12-19 15:18:55.000000000 -0800 @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ -2.5 -2005-10-02 +2.6 +2005-12-19
Introduction to Block Devices @@ -152,9 +152,9 @@ /var /var partition. Used for program-generated data. By default Portage uses - this partition for temporary space whilst compiling. Certain larger - applications such as Mozilla and OpenOffice.org can require over 1 GByte - of temporary space here when building. + this partition for temporary space whilst compiling. If you will be + compiling extremely large programs, it would be a good idea to set aside + 8G.