[gentoo-user] During installation says disk full

[gentoo-user] During installation says disk full

[Ognjen Bezanov]

Hi,

I'm trying to install gentoo on my system, but during the emerge --sync
part, it fails saying no space on disk.

trying to create files or folders results in  "No space left on device"
error message.

checking with "df -h" tells me that 643Mb is free on the disk itself.

The disk is a single ext3 partition mounted as root "/ " .

Why is it telling me that I have 643Mb on the disk free while I am
unable to create files and folders due to lack of disk space.


Any help appreciated.

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Re: [gentoo-user] During installation says disk full

[Zac Medico]

Ognjen Bezanov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install gentoo on my system, but during the emerge --sync
> part, it fails saying no space on disk.
> 
> trying to create files or folders results in  "No space left on device"
> error message.
> 
> checking with "df -h" tells me that 643Mb is free on the disk itself.
> 
> The disk is a single ext3 partition mounted as root "/ " .
> 
> Why is it telling me that I have 643Mb on the disk free while I am
> unable to create files and folders due to lack of disk space.
> 
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 

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.

dumpe2fs -h /dev/hda3 | grep inodes

Zac
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