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On 20 August 2011 18:52, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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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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Yes, df -i says /portage is out of inodes. I've never run into that |
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before. I reran mke2fs to increase the inode count and that fixed |
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things. |
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Would LVM somehow prevent these sort of things from happening? LVM |
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doesn't affect inode usage, does it? What exactly are the advantages |
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of LVM? Is it just that it's easier to resize LVM partitions after the |
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fact? (That would, of course, already be very useful.) |