Hello,

I'm a newbie and have just signed up for my Linode about a week ago. I got started with the Debian distribution because that's what I've been running on a laptop at home. Tonight I tried out the Gentoo distribution, but I've run into somewhat of a snag.

The /usr/portage directory is not laid out as described in the Gentoo docs. There is another directory, /usr/portage/portage~, which seems to be the "real" Portage tree. Does the Linode Gentoo distribution intend to be this way? Will this affect the operation of emerge?

I ran "emerge sync" and got a flurry of these errors:

mkstemp <path-to-file-from-package-here> failed: No space left on device

A check of df reports that I've got 241M of a 1010M filesystem free.

- Brandon

The /usr/portage/portage~ directory sounds familiar. I was removing the portage directory to see if I could reduce the initial size of the distro image, but an emerge sync would be necessary post-deployment to get it back up to snuff.

Do you think an "emerge sync" needs more than 250MB?

You can probably blow the portage~ directory to clear up some space and then sync again...

?

-Chris