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Joseph3348

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Registered: 2016-06-19

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Error: not enough free disk space

So I've installed Arch Linux on Oracle VirtualBox and I'm trying to install the sddm graphical login. Every time I install it, it shows that it's 100% installed and then I get three errors:

error: Partition / too full: 95850 blocks needed, 48020 blocks free
error: not enough free disk space
error: failed to commit transaction (not enough free disk space)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
pacman -S sddm 0.25s user 5.62s system 10% cpu 58.150 total

I went back and resized my partition scheme to:
1   537MB   ext4   /boot
2   1509MB   linux-swap(v1)
3   6540MB   fat32   /

that's the size of the partitions, and yes I made sure none of them are overlapping.

I have over 6GB of space for sddm to install on partition "/" but it's saying that there's not enough space when it said it needed only 237MB I think.

Please help, I can't sleep until I get this to work.

mis

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Registered: 2016-03-16

Posts: 234

Re: Error: not enough free disk space

What is the output of

df -h

Why do you use fat32 for the root partition?

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: Error: not enough free disk space

You can't use FAT32 for a root partition as it doesn't have the required features, use ext4 instead.

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null

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Re: Error: not enough free disk space

fat32 doesn't support unix file permissions and won't work as root filesystem. Reinstall on a different filesystem (like ext4) and come back if the problem persists.

Joseph3348

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Registered: 2016-06-19

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Re: Error: not enough free disk space

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev   997M   0   997M   0%   /dev
run   1010M   42M   968M   5%   /run
/dev/sr0   744M   744M   0   100%   /run/archiso/bootmnt
cowspace   256M   13M   244M   5%   /run/archiso/cowspace
/dev/loop0   319M   319M   0   100%   /run/archiso/sfs/airootfs
airootfs   256M   13M 244M   5%   /
tmpfs   1010M   0   1010M   0%   /dev/shm
tmpfs   1010M   0   1010M   0%   /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs   1010M   0   1010M   0%   /tmp
tmpfs   1010M   1.2M   1009M   1%   /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
tmpfs   202M   0   202M   0%   /run/user/0

I couldn't copy and paste so I typed it all out that's why the format is that way.

And I'll go try to change it from FAT32 to ext4.

Joseph3348

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Registered: 2016-06-19

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Re: Error: not enough free disk space

You can't use FAT32 for a root partition as it doesn't have the required features, use ext4 instead.

I'm getting a different issue now. I change the partition to ext4 and then I type in quit to get out of "parted" mode, and then if I go back in again to check on it, it switches back over FAT32. And yes, I tried unmounting the filesystem and changing it again, but that didn't do anything.

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

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Re: Error: not enough free disk space

As well as changing the partition type in parted you also need to actually format the partition as ext4.

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No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
Closing -- for deletion; Banning -- for muppetry. - jasonwryan

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Joseph3348

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Registered: 2016-06-19

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Re: Error: not enough free disk space

fat32 doesn't support unix file permissions and won't work as root filesystem. Reinstall on a different filesystem (like ext4) and come back if the problem persists.

I changed the root partition to ext4, I basically redid the entire thing from the beginning and I'm still getting the same problem. "not enough free disk space"

Trilby

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Re: Error: not enough free disk space

Please post the output of the following:

fdisk -l
lsblk -f

EDIT: hold on - the output from post 5 shows you are in the live system, not your actual system.  You need to boot into your installation before you'll be able to install much.

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Joseph3348

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Registered: 2016-06-19

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Re: Error: not enough free disk space

Please post the output of the following:

fdisk -l
lsblk -f

EDIT: hold on - the output from post 5 shows you are in the live system, not your actual system.  You need to boot into your installation before you'll be able to install much.

How do I boot into the installation? Whenever I reboot, it unmounts all of my partitions

Last edited by Joseph3348 (2016-06-19 18:52:26)

Trilby

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Re: Error: not enough free disk space

It sounds like you never did actually install archlinux.  Follow the wiki.  Install the system.  Remove the installation iso.  Reboot.

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circleface

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Re: Error: not enough free disk space

Did you follow the Beginner's Guide or what?  When you reboot you should be in your arch system, and all partitions you set up in fstab should be mounted.