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sajro

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 56

How to expand size of Pacman cache? Is something wrong with my fstab?

I'm trying to install OpenOffice and its dependencies. It's getting all the way to 'openoffice-base' but then gives me this:

error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/openoffice-base-2.3.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz': No space left on device

Whenever another installation gives this error, I run "pacman -Scc" and try to install again and it works. I've done that twice but it won't work for OOo. I'm guessing the size of my cache is too small. Is there a way to make it bigger (I'm guessing in pacman.conf?) so there's enough room for OpenOffice?

This happens with Kaffeine and KTorrent, too.

Last edited by sajro (2008-03-21 00:07:04)

sajro

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 56

Re: How to expand size of Pacman cache? Is something wrong with my fstab?

Forgot to mention: I wouldn't mind switching to AbiWord and Gnumeric, but I need a presentation app for school. Are there any nice presentation apps besides OOo and KPresenter?

I'd prefer lighter-weight apps anyway.

sajro

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 56

Re: How to expand size of Pacman cache? Is something wrong with my fstab?

This is odd: fstab contradicts conky...

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0   vfat   user,noauto   0      0
/dev/sda1 / reiserfs defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0

Conky reports that / has 729 mb...did I set mountpoints wrong or is this a conky issue?

Last edited by sajro (2008-03-21 00:06:13)

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 792

Re: How to expand size of Pacman cache? Is something wrong with my fstab?

What's the output of

df -h

?

sajro

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 56

Re: How to expand size of Pacman cache? Is something wrong with my fstab?

What's the output of

df -h

?

It confirms that I mounted swap as root, or (during partitioning) gave the wrong partition a swap FS. I'll reinstall when I finish my restore script and back up my config files.

Thanks for mentioning df, I wouldn't have thought of that.