JC Denton wrote:

> I started an emerge openoffice last night. This
> morning I found that the emerge failed and that the
> installation has eaten all my space on the hard drive.
> I had 1.7GB free and this morning it was 0 GB. 
> 
> How can I find out how much space I need? 

You can't. You'll have to rely on experience.

For OOo, you should have as much as about 6 GB available.

> And do I get this space back after the compiling
> process is finished?

Yes, you do - if the process is *successfully* finished.

Alexander Skwar
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