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Jauch

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2010-12-14

Posts: 57

[Solved] Arch on Virtualbox - No space on device

Hello my friends.

Recently I installed Arch on Virtualbox over Windows 8.1,
Everything was working until friday, when I did an upgrade of the system.

Yesterday, I started to receive "No space on device" messages for everything, from simple file copies to system upgrade, etc.
I'm using a dynamic disk (growing when needed). The actual size is 9 GB, while the maximum size is 100GM and the available space on the real Harddisk is 300GB.

I'm looking for a solution for this problem, but certainly I'm looking on the wrong places...

If I remember, the upgrade included a kernel upgrade... Should I install Guest additions again?

Any hint will be appreciated.

Cheers,
Eduardo Jauch

Last edited by Jauch (2015-07-20 16:44:59)

ewaller

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Re: [Solved] Arch on Virtualbox - No space on device

The culprit is probably your /tmp directory.  It is RAM based rather than disk based.  What is the output of df -h   ?
If it is the /tmp, try rebooting and trying again.  You might also give the VM more RAM.

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Jauch

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2010-12-14

Posts: 57

Re: [Solved] Arch on Virtualbox - No space on device

You're right!

I'm trying to install a package that is eeeery large. Even with the 4GB available to tmp (I have 8GB available to the VM), it is not enough. The 'df -h' showed exactly this. The /tmp full.
I'll change the TMPDIR temporarily to a shared folder and I think this will solve the issue.

Thanks a lot!