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Jen0vaCore
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 Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 12:57 pm Post subject: Kernel Compilation - No Space Left On Device |
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Hey everyone. I was setting up a Virtual Machine using Oracle's Virtual Box to install Gentoo so I could try an installation first.
I've followed the Gentoo Handbook very closely and just used the commands that were recommended or typed without much manual configuration of the kernel and such.
The problem occurred when I left the kernel compile over night while I slept. I woke up to about 6 or 8 lines saying failing to install because no space was left on this device. None of my partitions could be found either and I couldn't mount or unmount anything on the hard drive.
I decided to restart and try again and found that after compiling the kernel, I only had 50MB of disk space left. The disk space I was using was 8GB, and curious as to what I may have done to cause Gentoo to need more than 8GB of disk space? Or could it be the fault of the virtual machine?
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pilla
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| Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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You can use "du" to find out how much space is used in different directories.
will give you space used by directories in the root of your system. If you want to see two levels of directories, change -d1 to -d2 and so on.
The -h flag makes it more readable, but not very good for sorting. You can just leave it out if you want.
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Jen0vaCore ...
I can't speak for others installs but my own comes in well under 8GB ...
| df -h | egrep '^/dev/': | /dev/mapper/vg-root 9.8G 5.1G 4.3G 55% /
/dev/mapper/vg-var 5.8G 930M 4.6G 17% /var
/dev/mapper/vg-home 276G 228G 48G 83% /home |
That would be approximately 6GB, and includes the full distfiles required to rebuild the entire system, two unpacked kernel sources (3.12.58 and 4.4.8), and a full Aboriginal Linux chroot (with sources).
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Jen0vaCore
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| Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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| pilla wrote: | You can use "du" to find out how much space is used in different directories.
will give you space used by directories in the root of your system. If you want to see two levels of directories, change -d1 to -d2 and so on.
The -h flag makes it more readable, but not very good for sorting. You can just leave it out if you want. |
Judging from the results du -d1 -h, it seems the root partition was completely full, which in total was 7.5GB.
Do the USE flags for the make.conf have anything to do with the size of the portage build process? I left those flags on default, which is pretty much all of them.
| khayyam wrote: | Jen0vaCore ...
I can't speak for others installs but my own comes in well under 8GB ...
| df -h | egrep '^/dev/': | /dev/mapper/vg-root 9.8G 5.1G 4.3G 55% /
/dev/mapper/vg-var 5.8G 930M 4.6G 17% /var
/dev/mapper/vg-home 276G 228G 48G 83% /home |
That would be approximately 6GB, and includes the full distfiles required to rebuild the entire system, two unpacked kernel sources (3.12.58 and 4.4. , and a full Aboriginal Linux chroot (with sources).
best ... khay |
How odd.. my entire 7.5GB partition was full after that, but I'm guessing it was from building portage. Did you use a minimal amount of USE flags in make.conf or did you use the default? |
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khayyam
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| Jen0vaCore wrote: | | How odd.. my entire 7.5GB partition was full after that, but I'm guessing it was from building portage. Did you use a minimal amount of USE flags in make.conf or did you use the default? |
Jen0vaCore ... I don't use a DE, and so the default 13.0 profile is in use, as for useflags, these are fairly minimal ...
| eix --print USE: | | acpi alsa caps maildir truetype vim-syntax zsh-completion -bash-completion -cups -dbus -doc -examples -gtk3 -gpm -gstreamer -introspection -ipv6 -ldap -libav -nls -startup-notification -systemd -udev |
... though most useflags are effected via package.use.
If you are attempting to build a DE such as KDE, Gnome, or XFCE, then I would expect some additional space requirements, but my /usr/src (where distfiles, kernel sources, etc, are located) is 3.7GB of the above 6GB so I wouldn't expect you are using 7.5GB without your having many more packages installed than I have.
best ... khay |
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| My OpenBox desktop uses under 4 GB with Libreoffice, Chromium, Firefox, MythTV, a few games and other software. This is without /usr/src and /usr/portage. Indeed, /home is on a different hard drive altogether. |
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8GB is a bit tight, but should see you through a basic install. Check for
free space with "df", and for free inodes with "df -i".
I generally allow 16 GB for /, and 16 GB for a (separate) /usr/portage.
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Jen0vaCore,
I suspect you are out of i-nodes rather that space. will show your i-node use.
Each file or directory needs one or more i-nodes and portage contain a lot of very small files.
tells | Code: | | Number of files: 209,162 (reg: 181,787, dir: 27,375) |
So the tree needs 209,162 i-nodes. Even though the files are small, they will each be allocated 4kb, as that's the default block size on an 8G filesystem.
Looking at my portage | Code: | Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg-portage 4092706 531614 3372523 14% /usr/portage |
Its just over 0.5G but I cheated, I formatted that partition with a 1kb block size to avoid the wasted space.
You will need about 2Gb on your system for the portage tree.
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