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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:17:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPrc80VqUxU2s1BHamGGZ_gBTVeWS_K=hCw_UgmZDcOAtqQMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130223060537.GD5625@syscon7.inet>

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/23/13 11:08, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday 23 February 2013 10:30:04 AM IST, Joseph wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to update one of my system and running:
>>> emerge -uDNavq world
>>> I get a very strange message: No space left on device'
>>>
>>> I have plenty of room left on the HD
>>> df -h
>>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>> rootfs           50G   13G   35G  27% /
>>> /dev/root        50G   13G   35G  27% /
>>> tmpfs           3.7G  668K  3.7G   1% /run
>>> udev             10M  4.6M  5.5M  46% /dev
>>> shm             3.7G     0  3.7G   0% /dev/shm
>>> cgroup_root      10M     0   10M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>>> /dev/sda4       530G  119G  385G  24% /home
>>> tmpfs            10M  4.6M  5.5M  46% /var/tmp/portage
>>>
>>> df -i
>>> Filesystem       Inodes  IUsed    IFree IUse% Mounted on
>>> rootfs          3278576 829078  2449498   26% /
>>> /dev/root       3278576 829078  2449498   26% /
>>> tmpfs            957692    535   957157    1% /run
>>> udev             949264    990   948274    1% /dev
>>> shm              957692      1   957691    1% /dev/shm
>>> cgroup_root      957692      6   957686    1% /sys/fs/cgroup
>>> /dev/sda4      35266560  33051 35233509    1% /home
>>> tmpfs            949264    990   948274    1% /var/tmp/portage
>>>
>>> So, why I'm getting this message?
>>>
>>
>> Your /var/tmp/portage is 10 MB! Increase that.
>>
>> --
>> Nilesh Govindarajan
>> http://nileshgr.com
>
>
> How do I increase it?
> I deleted all the file in /var/tmp/portage but after reboot the system
> populate it again.
> In fstab I have two entries:
> ...
> shm                     /dev/shm        devtmpfs        nodev,nosuid,noexec
> 0 0
> tmpfs           /var/tmp/portage        devtmpfs        defaults  0 0
>
> should I just comment them out?

Comment the second and reboot, /var/tmp/portage will be a normal
directory in your hard drive. However, having only 10MB left in a
tmpfs mount sounds weird; either you have very little memory in your
system, or something is eating it up.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-23  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-23  5:00 [gentoo-user] No space left on device ? Joseph
2013-02-23  5:38 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-02-23  6:05   ` Joseph
2013-02-23  6:17     ` Canek Peláez Valdés [this message]
2013-02-23  6:23       ` Joseph
2013-02-23 23:40         ` Peter Humphrey
2013-02-23  6:21     ` Joseph
2013-02-23  8:52       ` Neil Bothwick
2013-02-23 12:42         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-02-23 14:16         ` Joseph
2013-02-23 14:24           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-02-23 15:44             ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-23 18:21               ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-02-23 23:25               ` Peter Humphrey
2013-02-24  8:46                 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-23 12:41     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-02-23 14:24       ` Joseph
2013-02-23 14:54         ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-23 15:46           ` Alex Schuster

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