Translations:Handbook:IA64/Blocks/Disks/11/en

is rather full (83% used) here, but once all software is installed, doesn't tend to grow that much. Although allocating a few gigabytes of disk space for may seem excessive, remember that portage uses this partition by default for compiling packages. To keep at a more reasonable size, such as 1GB, alter the PORTAGE_TMPDIR variable in  to point to the partition with enough free space for compiling extremely large packages such as LibreOffice.