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hjohnson02

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Registered: 2018-08-25

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[SOLVED] No space left on device: mkfs.fat

Following arch installation guide and unable to set EFI System partition to type FAT32. Returns error "zsh: no space left on device: mkfs.fat". Created partitions using fdisk with GPT type. Thanks in advance for help

Partitions:
/dev/sdb1 512M EFI System (boot)
/dev/sdb2 32G Linux filesystem (root)
/dev/sdb3 4G Linux filesystem (swap)
/dev/sdb4 429.3G Linux filesystem (home)

Last edited by hjohnson02 (2019-12-01 13:31:23)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: [SOLVED] No space left on device: mkfs.fat

Please post the exact command you used to format the partititon.

Moving to Newbie Corner.

hjohnson02

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Registered: 2018-08-25

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] No space left on device: mkfs.fat

Please post the exact command you used to format the partititon.

Moving to Newbie Corner.

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdb1

From the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EF … _partition docs

hjohnson02

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Registered: 2018-08-25

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Re: [SOLVED] No space left on device: mkfs.fat

Solved via rebooting and using same command to format boot directory.

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdb1

Issue being that I filled up the tmp directory via attempting to update packages before.

pacman -Syu

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] No space left on device: mkfs.fat

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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