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From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
To: David Wilson <david@daviwil.com>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Diagnosing "In procedure symlink: No space left on device"
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:53:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgjil46p.fsf@ponder> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2fe8237a-8e46-4a13-bcf3-28849d699d73@www.fastmail.com>

On 2020-02-10, David Wilson wrote:
> Recently on one of my machines I've not been able to update one of my
> 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):
>
> ---
> λ 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?

Maybe you've run out of inodes?

  df -i


live well,
  vagrant

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-10 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-10 17:30 Diagnosing "In procedure symlink: No space left on device" David Wilson
2020-02-10 17:53 ` Vagrant Cascadian [this message]
2020-02-10 18:07   ` David Wilson
2020-02-10 18:06 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-02-10 18:07   ` David Wilson

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