From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Wilson" Subject: Re: Diagnosing "In procedure symlink: No space left on device" Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:07:07 -0800 Message-ID: <472aef67-63c6-4151-af70-9ca177a5a198@www.fastmail.com> References: <2fe8237a-8e46-4a13-bcf3-28849d699d73@www.fastmail.com> <87sgjil46p.fsf@ponder> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j1DT0-00021s-Us for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:07:31 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j1DSz-0003H7-OT for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:07:30 -0500 Received: from wout5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([64.147.123.21]:39125) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j1DSz-0003GX-AR for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:07:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87sgjil46p.fsf@ponder> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Vagrant Cascadian , help-guix@gnu.org Argh, yes, that seems to be the case: --- =CE=BB df -i /dev/dm-0 15597568 15597568 0 100% / --- I could have sworn I checked that before! Clearing out some large Git r= epos seems to be doing the trick. Thanks a lot! David On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, at 9:53 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2020-02-10, David Wilson wrote: > > Recently on one of my machines I've not been able to update one of m= y > > profiles due to a "No space left on device" error (see snippet below= ). > > My device is most definitely not out of space (/dev/dm-0 has 42gb > > free): > > > > --- > > =CE=BB df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > none 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev > > /dev/dm-0 234G 180G 42G 82% / > ... > > Is there some other reason that Guix might think that I'm out of > > space? Is there any other command I can run that might help > > illuminate why I'm getting this error? >=20 > Maybe you've run out of inodes? >=20 > df -i >=20 >=20 > live well, > vagrant >