[Voyage-linux] "no space left on device" error but I have a lot of free space....

[Pablo Escobar]

I Rob, 

many thanks for your kick answer. I had allready tried to upload the file to a a different 
folder and it didn´t worked but after reading your mail I decided to try again just to be 
sure and something extrange happened. On the first try it worked:

[pablo][esplinter][/var/tmp]$ scp tftpboot.tar.gz root at 10.1.1.1:/root
root at 10.1.1.1's password:
tftpboot.tar.gz                                                                                                                                                                                            
100%  194MB   3.9MB/s   00:50
scp: /root/tftpboot.tar.gz: No space left on device


[pablo][esplinter][/var/tmp]$ scp tftpboot.tar.gz root at 10.1.1.1:/var/tmp
root at 10.1.1.1's password:
tftpboot.tar.gz                                                                                                                                                                                            
100%  194MB   3.9MB/s   00:50
scp: /var/tmp/tftpboot.tar.gz: No space left on device


[pablo][esplinter][/var/tmp]$ scp tftpboot.tar.gz root at 10.1.1.1:/var/local
root at 10.1.1.1's password:
tftpboot.tar.gz                                                                                                                                                                                            
100%  194MB   3.5MB/s   00:56
[pablo][esplinter][/var/tmp]$

I have been looking around /etc/fstab , "df" "fdisk" and "mount" commands to try to figure 
why it is working this way and I can´t find any configuration which explains it. Is seems 
all three directories (/root, /var/tmp and /var/local) are in the same partition so I 
think maybe my flash cart is not working ok. It seems strange because I haven´t used it 
too much.

many thanks
Pablo. 


On Thursday 12 February 2009 21:00:27 Rob Jenkins wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
>
> I am not sure what version of Voyage you are using but on mine (an older
> fork of Voyage v2) the /tmp directory is part of the /rw directory tree
> and therefore only has a few MB assigned to it (looks like you have 8MB
> for yours).
>
> You can assign more space to the RW directories in /etc/fstab or just
> upload files to a non-RW directory (after remountrw of course)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rob
>
> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 11:52 -0800, Pablo Escobar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been using the stable version of voyage linux installed on a alix
> > board with a 4gb flash card working great for many months but now I have
> > found a really strange problem.
> >
> > I have plenty of free space on the flash card. Here you can see output of
> > "df" command on voyage machine:
> >
> > voyage:/var/tftpboot.old# df -h
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > rootfs                3.8G  305M  3.3G   9% /
> > udev                   10M   20K   10M   1% /dev
> > /dev/disk/by-label/ROOT_FS
> >                       3.8G  305M  3.3G   9% /
> > /dev/disk/by-label/ROOT_FS
> >                       3.8G  305M  3.3G   9% /dev/.static/dev
> > tmpfs                 126M     0  126M   0% /lib/init/rw
> > tmpfs                 126M     0  126M   0% /dev/shm
> > tmpfs                 8.0M 1020K  7.1M  13% /rw
> >
> >
> > but when I run "remountw" on voyage machine and try to upload a 195M file
> > from my personal computer I get a "no space left" error which I don´t
> > understand
> >
> > [mypc][/var/tmp]$ du -sh tftpboot.tar.gz
> > 195M    tftpboot.tar.gz
> >
> > [mypc][esplinter][/var/tmp]$ scp tftpboot.tar.gz root at voyage:/tmp
> > root at voyage's password:
> > tftpboot.tar.gz
> > 100%  194MB   4.0MB/s   00:49
> > scp: /tmp/tftpboot.tar.gz: No space left on device
> >
> > After the "no space left" error the md5sum of the uploaded file is wrong
> > and I cant decompress it.  I have also tried to upload to differents
> > directories and to upload all the files after decomprising them on my
> > personal computer but nothing worked.
> >
> > I haven´t found any message with similar problem on the mailing list and
> > I have been thinking to disable the /ro and /rw stuff as explained here
> > http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=remove_ro
> >
> > ¿does anyone knows if doing this can solve my problem?? ¿Maybe is there
> > any other workaround?
> >
> > many thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > Pablo.
> >
> >
> >
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