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 -- Air is water with holes in it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list