[Voyage-linux] "no space left on device" error but I have a lot of free space....
Kim-man 'Punky' TSE
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Fri Feb 13 09:20:06 HKT 2009
Hi Pablo,
For 0.5.2 stable, /root/ /var/tmp and /tmp are symlinks to the
corresponding directories under /rw, which is a tmpfs allocated with
default 8MB. To increase /rw size, adjust the /rw tmpfs entry in fstab.
- Punky
Pablo Escobar wrote:
> 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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