From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47705198005 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:46:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64E8121C040; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:46:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f178.google.com (mail-we0-f178.google.com [74.125.82.178]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3D61E0587 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:46:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f178.google.com with SMTP id x48so1408188wey.9 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:46:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9L5IhCcjEL1Qqrkqe15zNrw0JbZO0942pyzLRb2bAM8=; b=E6iFgUB5duSic+OEZkUhU5A1MnloyOpbrm45PGkF1t0OGWxVGl3lY+d0qc6lDc0k+0 K+i4vUuwRDe4uhhKLMxIwfqH2zN572jsb9Uc7BZlgjC3aYFbRb/cDdSJH4DO5k3kn6iR VZ2yhatx8HhInNtdU8QiamZaZ+Ixdkex919EXTmnKoLLlkaYJ1bmDeiBsmvUe4uMoPDz /FHkVEjklHxBmgeGGqzlSSGt7a7SR1V30PHmixh3VDBdWqXUb8G1D8AAD0PsA3AnAf9b Pfxvnau9adoOwnC+n+ovJOckgzDU/VrlqigwgQ8twkyblIKk+PHjR5dLgu/CzaByaie8 I83Q== X-Received: by 10.194.157.42 with SMTP id wj10mr7646238wjb.12.1361634367335; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:46:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-215-205-209.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.205.209]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n2sm4103863wiy.6.2013.02.23.07.46.05 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:46:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5128E3DF.2040205@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:44:31 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130114 Thunderbird/17.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ? References: <20130223050004.GC5625@syscon7.inet> <512855B8.4080904@nileshgr.com> <20130223060537.GD5625@syscon7.inet> <20130223062102.GE5625@syscon7.inet> <20130223085233.4dd35f50@digimed.co.uk> <20130223141624.GB3444@syscon7.inet> <5128D135.8030901@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <5128D135.8030901@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b9c023f2-6bf2-4e61-bfec-c8d95b8a376b X-Archives-Hash: 93b53ef46f2e3976da81bdd77fe50910 On 23/02/2013 16:24, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 23.02.2013 15:16, schrieb Joseph: >> On 02/23/13 08:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: >>> >>>> Got it. I change it to: >>>> tmpfs /var/tmp/portage devtmpfs >>>> size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 >>> >>> Why are you using devtmpfs? You should be using tmpfs for this, which >>> defaults to half your available RAM. devtmpfs is a special option >>> for early-boot /dev only. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Neil Bothwick >> >> I was following the instruction from recent "udev" upgrade: Upgrading >> udev from 171 (or older) to 197 >> >> ----copy-------- >> - The need of CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y in the kernel; need to verify the >> fstype for >> possible /dev line in /etc/fstab is devtmpfs (and not, for example, >> tmpfs) >> ---end coopy---- >> >> So I change both lines in fstab: >> shm /dev/shm devtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 >> tmpfs /var/tmp/portage devtmpfs >> size=2048M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 >> > > and the part quoted talked about DEV nothing else. > I have to say this: The number of people who completely and totally misread the simple instructions about upgrading udev is spectacular. The guides say clearly and unambiguously to modify the mount options for /dev And what did so many users at once go and do? Changed every line in fstab that had the three characters d-e-v in them as well. I dunno, sometimes I want to give up. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com