moving user or making a link or symbolic link

hitachi

I was trying to update my system. Now I do have a problem. I don'h have enough space left on my first partion and so emerging gcc leads to an error. I do have a second partion where more than 1 gb is left.
Now I think there are two posible solutions. I could move my user to the second partion. This would free up around 900mb (mainly used by the .thunderbird folder). But I have been told using cp could break alot. So how can I move the user?
The othere posibility would be to move the folder (/var/tmp/portage) to the second partion. How would I do this?

Thanks for every help and every idea

dalek · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:14 am Post subject:

Well, I have moved my entire OS before using the command cp -av /old/location /new/location and it has always worked very well.

Hope that helps.

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dalek · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:18 am Post subject:

You could just link /var/tmp/portage to the other partition. ln -s /var/tmp/portage /where ever/new/partition/is/mounted should work. Someone correct me if I am wrong on that one.

I also think you can edit make.conf and move it as well.

Hope one of those helps.

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My rig: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P mobo, AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core CPU, ZALMAN CNPS10X Performa CPU cooler,
G.SKILL 32GB DDR3 PC3 12800 Memory Nvidia GTX-650 video card LG W2253 Monitor
60TBs of hard drive space using LVM
Cooler Master HAF-932 Case

hitachi · Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject:

Hi,
I just mounted an empty hdd to /var/tmp/portage . It's working now. May not be a fine solution but it's OK for now.

Thanks for the help

BlackEdder · Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject:

You can also override the portage_tmpdir