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Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> It's been quite a few years but I decided to try another Gentoo |
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> install (on a VirtualBox instance). I wanted to try out some new |
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> things... |
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> I created a ton of partitions including /usr (I want to see if I can |
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> get that to work), /portage, and /distfiles. The idea was to mount |
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> /portage on top of /usr and /distfiles on top of /portage. This all |
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> works fine. |
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> However, when I try to extract the Portage snapshot, I get "No space |
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> left on device" a long way into the untar process. According to df |
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> /portage (i.e. /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage) is only 35% full. In fact, not |
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> a single partition or mount is even close to full (except for |
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> /mnt/static, the DVD). |
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> If I untar directly to /usr (after unmounting /portage), everything |
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> works fine. If I then try to copy or move to /portage, I get the "No |
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> space left on device" again. And at the same place. |
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> Does anyone know what's going on here? I didn't realize I was doing |
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> such strange things. At least not this early on. :-) |
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See if you are out of inodes. The only way to get the inodes that I am |
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aware of is to debugfs to the partition and do stat from within -- if |
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there is a better way please let me know. But why not use lvm? |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |