Why is it filled up?

[supreme_geek_overlord]

Okay, so I go through the process of installing Gentoo, and it seems to work fine up to the point where you have to extract the tarball. When I extract it, it has a bunch of errors. First it says, "<blah file>: wrote only <blah> of <blah> bytes" or something like that. Then, it says, "<blah file>: wrote only 0 of <blah> bytes", and then it either is finished but complaining about something, or decides to abandon the extraction process. So, I think, maybe I can go ahead anyway. Well, when I get to the point where I chroot, when you are supposed to "mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc" or something, it says "/mnt/gentoo/proc" doesn't exist. So, I think maybe I missed something, and you had to create that directory. So, I "mkdir /mnt/gentoo/proc", and it says "cannot create directory: space in device filled up!"

So obviously, the space in my drive got filled up somehow, but I don't know how. I am using stage 1 off of the basic LiveCD, which is only 10MB when it is tarballed, and I have a little less than 2 gigs in my HDD (it's an oldie, I know). The drive did have some info on it before I used fdisk to delete the partition. Does fdisk not erase the info on it? Well, anyway, I'm in the dark here, and I have tried everything I could think of.
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[curtis119]

This might be your problem. It happened to me about 3 years ago when I first started using nix (Slackware to be precise).

If you set up the hdd to be ext2 or 3 then you probably used the wrong inode number. You only get as many files as inodes even though there is still physical space on the disk. Reiserfs handles this much more eloquently, try reformatting to Reiserfs. It is faster and much more crash proof. If you really want to use ext2/3 though then try this when you reformat:

mke2fs -T news -j /dev/hd?
-T news will create 1 inode per 4Kb of space on the drive which will give you more than enough inodes. -j will create a journal(makes it ext 3 without this option it is an ext 2).

To make it Reiserfs then do this:

mkreiserfs /dev/hd?
The reiserfs make program will automatically figure out all the options for you.

Of course doing this means you have to start your install from scratch. Think of it as a learning experience.

Hope this helps.
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[supreme_geek_overlord]

Well, thanks for the help, but i figured it out myself. I was playing around with D#$% Small Linux yesterday, and I found that I had extracted the tarball to /dev/hdb1 (my boot partition) rather than /dev/hdb2. . So i've figured it out, but once again, thanks for the help.
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