On 20 August 2011 20:05, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Hilco Wijbenga > <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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). > > Try "df -i" to check your inode usage.
Yes, thanks, I had just found out about "df -i" myself. :-)