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Subject: Re: Diagnosing "In procedure symlink: No space left on device"
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:53:18 -0800
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To: David Wilson <david@daviwil.com>, help-guix@gnu.org

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):
>
> ---
> =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?

Maybe you've run out of inodes?

  df -i


live well,
  vagrant