problem with mkinitrd
 

hi

suddenly out of the blue i am facing this problme whilre making intrd images
i have done this a lot of time and now i am facing this problem

root@darkstar:/usr/src/linux-2.6.11.8# mkinitrd -k 2.6.11gm142 -o /boot/initrd-2.6.11gm142.img
cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/tmp.1DbU0G/rootdev': No space left on device
cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/tmp.1DbU0G/rootfs': No space left on device

i got he same error for compiling 2.4 kernel as well
it was going fine some time back

any suggestions

regards

"no space left on device" is telling you your filesystem is full.

Do df -k /tmp/tmp.1DbU0G to see what it is mounted as and how full it is:

Example output:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda9 472984 10739 437824 3% /tmp


If you see Use% at 100% then you need to clean up. It is possible that it is not at 100% when you start but is getting there during the process. If this is the case you can monitor it by opening a separate window and running:

while true
do
df -k tmp.1DbU0G
sleep 5
done

This will repeat the output every 5 seconds. (Hit ctrl-C when done to break out of it.) If you see it hit 100% you need to clean up your filesystem.

well i thought of this and i have around 1 Gb of space left

df -k /tmp/
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda4 5020152 3928768 1091384 79% /

You're assuming the subdirectory is part of /tmp. That's why I suggested you specify it in your df -k.

Also noted a type in the for loop. Should have said /tmp/...

tried that

it is never going high in space

thanks for suggestion

let me try the same kernel config on differetn Distro

regards