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Bug 117590 - Full disk check into emerge
Summary: Full disk check into emerge
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 23851
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2006-01-03 05:52 UTC by Clock
Modified: 2006-01-03 06:32 UTC (History)
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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 ***