On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Joseph <syscon...@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
