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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:41:19
Message-Id: 5128B8E2.5050304@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ? by Joseph
1 Am 23.02.2013 07:05, schrieb Joseph:
2 > On 02/23/13 11:08, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
3 >> On Saturday 23 February 2013 10:30:04 AM IST, Joseph wrote:
4 >>> I'm trying to update one of my system and running:
5 >>> emerge -uDNavq world
6 >>> I get a very strange message: No space left on device'
7 >>>
8 >>> I have plenty of room left on the HD
9 >>> df -h
10 >>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
11 >>> rootfs 50G 13G 35G 27% /
12 >>> /dev/root 50G 13G 35G 27% /
13 >>> tmpfs 3.7G 668K 3.7G 1% /run
14 >>> udev 10M 4.6M 5.5M 46% /dev
15 >>> shm 3.7G 0 3.7G 0% /dev/shm
16 >>> cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
17 >>> /dev/sda4 530G 119G 385G 24% /home
18 >>> tmpfs 10M 4.6M 5.5M 46% /var/tmp/portage
19 >>>
20 >>> df -i
21 >>> Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
22 >>> rootfs 3278576 829078 2449498 26% /
23 >>> /dev/root 3278576 829078 2449498 26% /
24 >>> tmpfs 957692 535 957157 1% /run
25 >>> udev 949264 990 948274 1% /dev
26 >>> shm 957692 1 957691 1% /dev/shm
27 >>> cgroup_root 957692 6 957686 1% /sys/fs/cgroup
28 >>> /dev/sda4 35266560 33051 35233509 1% /home
29 >>> tmpfs 949264 990 948274 1% /var/tmp/portage
30 >>>
31 >>> So, why I'm getting this message?
32 >>>
33 >>
34 >> Your /var/tmp/portage is 10 MB! Increase that.
35 >>
36 >> --
37 >> Nilesh Govindarajan
38 >> http://nileshgr.com
39 >
40 > How do I increase it?
41 > I deleted all the file in /var/tmp/portage but after reboot the system
42 > populate it again.
43 > In fstab I have two entries:
44 > ...
45 > shm /dev/shm devtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
46 > tmpfs /var/tmp/portage devtmpfs defaults 0 0
47 >
48 > should I just comment them out?
49 >
50
51 no,
52
53 you should change it to this:
54 tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs rw,size=8G 0 0
55
56 play around with size. Usually 2GB is more than enough. Except for
57 libreoffice.
58 Then umount /var/tmp/portage and mount it again.

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