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Ognjen Bezanov wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm trying to install gentoo on my system, but during the emerge --sync |
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> part, it fails saying no space on disk. |
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> trying to create files or folders results in "No space left on device" |
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> error message. |
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> checking with "df -h" tells me that 643Mb is free on the disk itself. |
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> The disk is a single ext3 partition mounted as root "/ " . |
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> Why is it telling me that I have 643Mb on the disk free while I am |
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> unable to create files and folders due to lack of disk space. |
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> Any help appreciated. |
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You are probably unable to allocate new files because you have run out of free inodes. You can increase the number of inodes when you create a filesystem with mke2fs. |
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dumpe2fs -h /dev/hda3 | grep inodes |
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Zac |
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