From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QuxEx-0003Lv-3T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:54:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 905ED21C2D3; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:54:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail0101.smtp25.com (mail0101.smtp25.com [67.228.8.101]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B203221C14C for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:52:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7L1qNL1006774 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:52:26 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%? In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Hilco Wijbenga message dated "Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:41:38 -0700." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.3.1 Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:52:23 -0400 Message-ID: <6772.1313891543@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com X-SpamH-Filter: y-out0.smtp25.com-p7L1qQ1b007025 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 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 403f0a2d856b5c02fa1e046909a94af4 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Hi all, > > It's been quite a few years but I decided to try another Gentoo > install (on a VirtualBox instance). I wanted to try out some new > things... > > I created a ton of partitions including /usr (I want to see if I can > get that to work), /portage, and /distfiles. The idea was to mount > /portage on top of /usr and /distfiles on top of /portage. This all > works fine. > > However, when I try to extract the Portage snapshot, I get "No space > left on device" a long way into the untar process. According to df > /portage (i.e. /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage) is only 35% full. In fact, not > a single partition or mount is even close to full (except for > /mnt/static, the DVD). > > If I untar directly to /usr (after unmounting /portage), everything > works fine. If I then try to copy or move to /portage, I get the "No > space left on device" again. And at the same place. > > Does anyone know what's going on here? I didn't realize I was doing > such strange things. At least not this early on. :-) See if you are out of inodes. The only way to get the inodes that I am aware of is to debugfs to the partition and do stat from within -- if there is a better way please let me know. But why not use lvm? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com