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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 06:17:21
Message-Id: CADPrc80VqUxU2s1BHamGGZ_gBTVeWS_K=hCw_UgmZDcOAtqQMw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ? by Joseph
1 On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 02/23/13 11:08, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On Saturday 23 February 2013 10:30:04 AM IST, Joseph wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>> I'm trying to update one of my system and running:
7 >>> emerge -uDNavq world
8 >>> I get a very strange message: No space left on device'
9 >>>
10 >>> I have plenty of room left on the HD
11 >>> df -h
12 >>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
13 >>> rootfs 50G 13G 35G 27% /
14 >>> /dev/root 50G 13G 35G 27% /
15 >>> tmpfs 3.7G 668K 3.7G 1% /run
16 >>> udev 10M 4.6M 5.5M 46% /dev
17 >>> shm 3.7G 0 3.7G 0% /dev/shm
18 >>> cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
19 >>> /dev/sda4 530G 119G 385G 24% /home
20 >>> tmpfs 10M 4.6M 5.5M 46% /var/tmp/portage
21 >>>
22 >>> df -i
23 >>> Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
24 >>> rootfs 3278576 829078 2449498 26% /
25 >>> /dev/root 3278576 829078 2449498 26% /
26 >>> tmpfs 957692 535 957157 1% /run
27 >>> udev 949264 990 948274 1% /dev
28 >>> shm 957692 1 957691 1% /dev/shm
29 >>> cgroup_root 957692 6 957686 1% /sys/fs/cgroup
30 >>> /dev/sda4 35266560 33051 35233509 1% /home
31 >>> tmpfs 949264 990 948274 1% /var/tmp/portage
32 >>>
33 >>> So, why I'm getting this message?
34 >>>
35 >>
36 >> Your /var/tmp/portage is 10 MB! Increase that.
37 >>
38 >> --
39 >> Nilesh Govindarajan
40 >> http://nileshgr.com
41 >
42 >
43 > How do I increase it?
44 > I deleted all the file in /var/tmp/portage but after reboot the system
45 > populate it again.
46 > In fstab I have two entries:
47 > ...
48 > shm /dev/shm devtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec
49 > 0 0
50 > tmpfs /var/tmp/portage devtmpfs defaults 0 0
51 >
52 > should I just comment them out?
53
54 Comment the second and reboot, /var/tmp/portage will be a normal
55 directory in your hard drive. However, having only 10MB left in a
56 tmpfs mount sounds weird; either you have very little memory in your
57 system, or something is eating it up.
58
59 Regards.
60 --
61 Canek Peláez Valdés
62 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
63 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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