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Alaanor

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Registered: 2016-01-07

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/tmp is full, no space left on device with 255Gb available

> yaourt -S unity-editor
after some compilation [...]
tar: unity-editor-5.3.3f1/MonoDevelop/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/monodevelop.mo: Cannot write: No space left on device

Wow, no space left ? Ok, let's see that:

> df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev             3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev
run             3.9G  580K  3.9G   1% /run
/dev/sda1       459G  181G  255G  42% /
tmpfs           3.9G   26M  3.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           3.9G  3.9G     0 100% /tmp
tmpfs           788M  4.0K  788M   1% /run/user/1000

Huh, I've over 255Gb available and same if I have only one partition, /tmp can be full ?

Why ? Is there any reason for that, any explanation and solution ?

Alaanor.

Scimmia

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Re: /tmp is full, no space left on device with 255Gb available

Because /tmp is on tmpfs, not on disk.

eschwartz

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Re: /tmp is full, no space left on device with 255Gb available

Because /tmp is a tmpfs filesystem...

Tell yaourt to use a different build folder on your hard drive instead of in /tmp if you need more space.

Last edited by eschwartz (2016-03-07 17:56:17)

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nstgc

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Re: /tmp is full, no space left on device with 255Gb available

/tmp is a temporary directory which is not on the HDD by default, but rather uses 25% of your system memory by default. Yaourt must be asking for more than 3.9GB of space.

WorMzy

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Re: /tmp is full, no space left on device with 255Gb available

Did you even read the output? /tmp, which is a tmpfs, is 100% full.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tmpfs

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Re: /tmp is full, no space left on device with 255Gb available

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=yaourt+no+space+left+on+device

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Re: /tmp is full, no space left on device with 255Gb available

Moving to AUR Issues, Discussion and PKGBUILD requests.

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