Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install gentoo on my system, but during the emerge --sync > part, it fails saying no space on disk. > > trying to create files or folders results in "No space left on device" > error message. > > checking with "df -h" tells me that 643Mb is free on the disk itself. > > The disk is a single ext3 partition mounted as root "/ " . > > Why is it telling me that I have 643Mb on the disk free while I am > unable to create files and folders due to lack of disk space. > > > Any help appreciated. >
You are probably unable to allocate new files because you have run out of free inodes. You can increase the number of inodes when you create a filesystem with mke2fs. dumpe2fs -h /dev/hda3 | grep inodes Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
