Bug 117590

Summary:	Full disk check into emerge
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Clock <clock>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Clock 2006-01-03 05:52:07 UTC

I suggest if emerge fails with error to check if the disk (/) is full. If yes then
print this message:
"Your disk is full. Maybe that's the reason why emerge failed. Unix programs generally behave nonsensically when the disk is full, and don't say this in error. 
You can usually gain a lot of space by deleting crap from portage cache. To do this, stop all applications that have anything to do with portage and run
rm -rf /var/cache/edb/*"

Comment 1 Clock 2006-01-03 06:02:32 UTC

Also "rm -rf /usr/portage/distfiles/*"

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-03 06:03:30 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> rm -rf /var/cache/edb/*"

Eh?!?!?!

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-01-03 06:32:00 UTC

yeah, sorry, but that's stupid advice

what you mean to say is you can delete /var/cache/edb/dep

however, we're never going to suggest that anywhere

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23851 ***