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z0phi3l

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From: Waterbury CT

Registered: 2007-11-26

Posts: 278

Drive space issue

Not sure if this is the correct forum

I'm trying to install Alien Arena through AUR, so far it downloads and seems to compile but when compacting the package it fails saying I don't have sapce.

Now it's installing to SDA3 and it does have space

[z0phi3l@z0phi3l ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3             7.3G  3.3G  3.6G  48% /
none                 1013M     0 1013M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              38M  8.4M   28M  24% /boot
/dev/sda4             268G   16G  239G   7% /home
/dev/sdb1             111G   78G   27G  75% /media/disk
/dev/sdc1              38G  192K   38G   1% /media/WD Passport

As you can see it has 3.6g free, so my question is, is Alien Arena needing more than 3.6 to install or is there another problem?

I can either change the pkgbuild (no clue) to another drive or add more space to sda3 (preferable but no clue how feasible) so anysuggestion?

And plaese move to correct forum if needed

ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: Drive space issue

Ok, I've just tested this with alienarena-20080227 from AUR, my build directory is 3.8G in size, however the actual .pkg.tar.gz is only 647M and the uncompressed package is 1.4G.  So it looks like you are about 200M short if you are building on sda3.

I suggest you copy your build directory into your home area where you seem to have plenty of space and redo the build there.  However once installed you will be quite tight on space on your root partition.

z0phi3l

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From: Waterbury CT

Registered: 2007-11-26

Posts: 278

Re: Drive space issue

Short of reinstalling Arch, is there a "simple" way of adding more space to sda3? Thinking of boosting it to 15-20gb

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: Drive space issue

NO, not simple...I've done this in the past and using something like gparted you need to resize the partion /dev/sda4 smaller to give yourself some room and then resize /dev/sda3 larger but funny things can happen when you resize partitions so you may end up reinstalling anyway.  If you have anything important on the drive...BACKUP FIRST.

Last edited by bgc1954 (2008-03-30 17:09:18)

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z0phi3l

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From: Waterbury CT

Registered: 2007-11-26

Posts: 278

Re: Drive space issue

Hmm looks lie it's time to reinstall instead of risking it, thanks for the input

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Drive space issue

As ghostHack already suggested, build the package under your /home instead of under your / - reinstalling is not the answer here.

I do all my package building under /home, with fakeroot. No need to do this kind of stuff anywhere else.

tam1138

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Registered: 2007-09-10

Posts: 238

Re: Drive space issue

Instead of repartitioning, you could play games with softlinks so that files under /usr end up on sda4 (ie, "ln -s /home/usr /usr").  It's tacky, but it works.

Jack B

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Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 107

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Re: Drive space issue

I'll try to clear up a potential misunderstanding - apologies if you already understand.

It takes 3.8GB to build, so you can't build on sda3, but it only takes 1.4GB to install, so it will fit.  You can build on /home/, it will take up lot's of space, but you can then install to / (takes 1.4GB) and delete the build directory in /home/.  Thus you can install without needing to change partition sizes or reinstall. This is what ghostHack and Tomk are recommending, and is certainly the best bet.

HTH
Jack B

edit: fixed malformed BBcode

Last edited by Jack B (2008-03-31 17:26:12)

z0phi3l

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From: Waterbury CT

Registered: 2007-11-26

Posts: 278

Re: Drive space issue

Ok thanks, I'll look into yaourts man page and see how to around doing that

Thanks for the info