Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com> 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?
--
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