directory does not contain enough space to extract temp files even w/ 15gigs avail?

phon_ca · 09-05-2012, 11:52 AM

hello, I just did a fresh install of RHEL 6 and now im trying to install a piece of software and I consistently get "The directory /tmp/istempXXXX does not contain enough space to extract temporary files..." This is very strange since i checked the mount point and sure enough, theres 15Gigs avail. I dont beleive the temp files are larger than a few hundred MBs. i've also tried -is:tempdir option. no luck there. then i also tried updating all packages with yum, hoping maybe it was some java environment issue. no luck there too. Any advice would be greatly appreciated =)
Thanks in adv,
Phil

TobiSGD · 09-05-2012, 12:26 PM

Please post the output of these commands:

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mount
df -h

phon_ca · 09-05-2012, 01:00 PM

Hi TobiSGD, the output is

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Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5              20G  4.8G   14G  27% /
tmpfs                  63G  368K   63G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             1.2G   83M  1.1G   8% /boot
/dev/sda3             811G  3.0G  767G   1% /home
/dev/sda4              64G  180M   60G   1% /usr/local
/dev/sda2             7.7G  460M  6.9G   7% /var
/dev/sr0              3.4G  3.4G     0 100% /media/DATA_20120806

and i also double checked the mount point with

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df -P /tmp | tail -1 | cut -d' ' -f 1

and the output is

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/dev/sda5

hope this helps.

TobiSGD · 09-05-2012, 01:04 PM

What is the output of

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df -i

Do you have any kind of quota in use?

phon_ca · 09-05-2012, 01:08 PM

Hi,
the output is

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Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda5            1281120  102289 1178831    8% /
tmpfs                16510622       6 16510616    1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              76800      45   76755    1% /boot
/dev/sda3            53952512    9957 53942555    1% /home
/dev/sda4            4210688      44 4210644    1% /usr/local
/dev/sda2             512064    3077  508987    1% /var
/dev/sr0                 200     200       0  100% /media/DATA_20120806

Im sorry Im not too sure what you mean by quota. Could you elaborate?

TobiSGD · 09-05-2012, 01:38 PM

If you don't know what a quota is (setting limits on disk usage for different users) you most likely won't have it set up on your system.

From the output you have shown us I can't see anything wrong with the system, it should work.