No space left on device

jarubyh · 01-09-2012, 04:53 PM

Hi,

Slackware is the only other distro I've used with the DIY attitude of Gentoo, so please bear with me if I ask the blatantly obvious :^)
Following the Gentoo Installation Docs, I've had no problems installing until I tried to unpack the Stage 3 Tarball, at which point I recieve the error "Cannot write: No space left on device" about when it gets to /usr/lib/*. I'm trying to put Gentoo on a 16GB partition, so I'm pretty sure it can't run out of space. Thanks.

Ion Silverbolt · 01-10-2012, 09:54 AM

Are you in the /mnt/gentoo directory? And is that were the stage 3 tarball was downloaded to and extracted from? If not, you're unpacking it from within the live environment. Also, make sure your clean 16Gb partition was mounted successfully as /mnt/gentoo

Code:

cat /etc/mtab

i92guboj · 01-10-2012, 04:02 PM

df and mount will help you to determine if the target partition is mounted properly. It likely is not.

jarubyh · 01-11-2012, 11:15 AM

Thanks, that fixed it. Now to get to using it.