From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>, 39774@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39774: guix incorrectly says "No space left on device"
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 22:15:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31D6F2BA-A08C-49C4-AD20-6076036A215C@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c750a5f65242c052a75df812123b95f94592b70.camel@gmail.com>
Le 24 février 2020 22:01:45 GMT-05:00, Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com> a écrit :
>I have a laptop with two drives. A few days ago, when I ran `df -h` it
>outputs:
>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>none 16G 0 16G 0% /dev
>/dev/sdb1 229G 189G 29G 87% /
>/dev/sda1 458G 136G 299G 32% /gnu/store
>tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm
>none 16G 64K 16G 1% /run/systemd
>none 16G 0 16G 0% /run/user
>cgroup 16G 0 16G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>tmpfs 3.2G 16K 3.2G 1% /run/user/983
>tmpfs 3.2G 60K 3.2G 1% /run/user/1001
>
>As you can see, /dev/sda1 is the drive mounted on /gnu/store.
>Everything in the store is written to it, and it has plenty of space
>available.
>
>Guix sometimes says there is "No space left on device". This always
>happens in particular when I try `guix gc --optimize`, but it sometimes
>happens when I call `guix pull` or `guix upgrade`. When guix pull or
>guix upgrade fails with this message, I can clear up more space by
>deleting ~/.cache and emtpying my trash and it works.
>
>
>Today I have also seen this happen when I'm trying to upgrade a large
>profile. It said it could not build anything because there was no more
>disk space, even after I cleaned up /dev/sdb1 to 40% use. It finally
>recognized the empty disk space when I called guix gc and it deleted a
>few of the dependencies needed for the upgrades. But it didn't take
>long to trigger this bug again. Here's the new output of `df -h`:
>
>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>none 16G 0 16G 0% /dev
>/dev/sdb1 229G 86G 131G 40% /
>/dev/sda1 458G 182G 253G 42% /gnu/store
>tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm
>none 16G 80K 16G 1% /run/systemd
>none 16G 0 16G 0% /run/user
>cgroup 16G 0 16G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>tmpfs 3.2G 24K 3.2G 1% /run/user/983
>tmpfs 3.2G 12K 3.2G 1% /run/user/1000
>tmpfs 3.2G 60K 3.2G 1% /run/user/1001
>
>Any clues why this happens and what can be done to fix it? Could it be
>related to how /dev/sdb1 is 229G large, and the total used space in /
>and /gnu/store is more than that?
>
>-Jesse
There could be two explanations: you've run out of inodes or the filesystem that was out of space is not the one you think (maybe it was during a build and your /tmp is a tmpfs?). Try `df -i`.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-25 3:01 bug#39774: guix incorrectly says "No space left on device" Jesse Gibbons
2020-02-25 3:15 ` Julien Lepiller [this message]
2020-02-25 14:59 ` Jesse Gibbons
2020-02-25 6:15 ` bug#39774: guix " Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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