I have the /usr/portage over a share network drive such as Samba. This allows me to save a lot of space. The recent portage code is buggy as it try to change the $DISTDIR\cvs-src ownership to portage:portage even thought I have removed userpriv/usersandbox from the FEATURES.
>>> emerge (1 of 10) net-irc/konversation-0.10 to / !!! File system problem. (ReadOnly? Out of space?) !!! Perhaps: rm -Rf /var/tmp/portage !!! [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/usr/portage/distfiles/cvs-src' corneille / # emerge info Portage 2.0.47-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r9 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/gentoo http://distro.ibiblio.org/gentoo " CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/mnt/network/packages/gentoo/dell_gx110" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga tcltk java mysql sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis mozilla cdr scanner X qt kde gtk -gnome alsa -3dnow xml -opengl sse -tetex mozsvg moznoirc moznomail -mozcalendar -mozp3p -mozxmlterm -motif ldap" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox buildpkg ccache"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16768 ***