RE: [cobalt-users] Out of disk space!!!

["Phil Ewington - 43 Plc" <phil.ewington@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bob Noordam
> Sent: 04 May 2004 16:13
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Out of disk space!!!
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> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Namens Phil
> > Ewington - 43 Plc
> > Verzonden: dinsdag 4 mei 2004 16:47
> > Aan: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Onderwerp: [cobalt-users] Out of disk space!!!
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am hoping someone can help me out of a big hole I seem to
> > have dug myself
> > into!!
> >
> > I was attempting to install Bugzilla and as such was using
> > the following
> > command to update the perl packages required by Bugzilla...
> >
> > perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Bundle::Bugzilla"'
> >
> > All was going well with installing everything that was
> > required, then it
> > started to ask me questions regarding the install, for each option it
> > prompted for the default value if the question was not understood. I
> > answered all the questions to the best of my knowledge and
> > let it do it's
> > stuff, then it stopped, out of disk space!!! I remembered
> > that a question
> > was to install to ./root which I thought was some kind of
> > alias for the root
> > of the existing perl stuff, now I have no disk space on / and
> > the directory
> > /root is empty!!!
> >
> > Can I easily reverse this process? What do you suggest is the
> > best way to
> > resolve this issue?
> >
> > Your help on this matter will be greatly appreciated,
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> > Phil.
> >
>
>
>
> cpan uses a hidden directory under root (only 10Mb) to build
> stuff. You can
> clear it our with
> rm /root/.cpan -R
>
> You will probaly have to scout for some more disjk space apart from that,
> 10Mb won't get you very far.
>
> Bob.
>

Ah, so the /root/.cpan directory is only being used to build the packages.
So if I allocate a larger space to say, /home/.cpan and re-run the
Bundle::Bugzilla installation and this time tell it to use /home/.cpan all
should be tickety boo?

Thanks for that!!

Phil.