Hi, I had the same problem with some large packages. The solution is to make ~/tmp/yaourt and have in your ~/.yaourtrc set TMPDIR=/home/csanyipal/tmp/yaourt (if that's your username).
If you use /tmp, then building will be faster, but everything will be in the memory drive (tmpfs 3.2G ... /tmp = in memory). That is better for smaller packages, but if you run chrome or firefox with lots of tabs and some more memory-intensive programs, you'll end up with the "no space left" message. Cheers o7 Filip 19.07.2014, 13:17, "Csányi Pál" <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I have been told on arch-general mailing list that that this problem > should be post here too, because this is an AUR problem. > > I'm trying to install icecat with yaourt but get always error: No > space left on device. > > $ df -H > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 66G 38G 26G 60% / > tmpfs 3.2G 0 3.2G 0% /dev/shm > tmpfs 3.2G 0 3.2G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup > tmpfs 3.2G 3.2G 160k 100% /tmp > tmpfs 627M 4.1k 627M 1% /run/user/1000 > > I have installed my arch linux on one partition only, on /dev/sda3. > > I tried to install icecat several times, moreover after a reboot too, > but always get this error message. > > I tried also to setup yaourt and makepkg: > /etc/yaourtrc > TMPDIR="/tmp" > > /etc/makepkg.conf > BUILDDIR=/tmp/makepkg > > Still get the above error. > > $ free -h > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 5.8G 4.2G 1.6G 2.9G 64M 3.2G > -/+ buffers/cache: 928M 4.9G > Swap: 511M 0B 511M > > /etc/fstab > > /dev/sda3 / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1 > /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 > /swapfile none swap defaults 0 0 > > On the arch-general mailing list I get the following advices. > > * From Daniel Micay: > Stop building a very large package in a filesystem of very limited size. > The BUILDDIR option is unset by default, and if you leave it unset > `makepkg` will work fine. > > * From me: > Before I edited the file: /etc/makepkg.conf > > I tried to install with yaourt the icecat package but get the same > error message. > That is way I edited the /etc/makepkg.conf file and set the BUILDDIR option > to: > BUILDDIR=/tmp/makepkg > > So, leaving it unset doesn't work here. > > * From Daniel Micay: > Leave it unset and build with makepkg directly. >> Set BUILDDIR=/var/tmp instead, /tmp is filling up. > > Or just use the *default* of not building in a global directory... > especially /tmp which is a ramdisk. > > * From Mark Lee: > I just looked at yaourt's yaourtrc and it's clear that it's storing > its temporary files in /tmp. Building with yaourt means building in > tmpfs which would for large compilation jobs can exhaust the tmpfs > file system. Either extend the size of /tmp by specifying a larger > size when mounting in /tmp (using fstab or just command line) or set a > different direcotry via yaourt --tmp <temporary directory>. > > This should really be posted to the AUR mailing list since it's an AUR > issue. I hope this helps. > > * From Ralf Mardorf: > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep tmp /etc/fstab > #tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=3G 0 0 > > It's commented out, but I once had to use it and it solved the issue for > me. > > * From John Broggs: > The best way to overcome this error is to allocate the space you need in > fstab as per the instructions on the fstab page on ArchWiki. > > * From Bigby James: > systemd will allocate /tmp to a ramdisk by default, whether you specify it or > not. Specifying tmpfs in /etc/fstab allows you to dictate how large the > ramdisk > is, but unless you explicitly stop systemd from mounting /tmp in RAM that's > where it will go. > > I solve this problem by building icecat directly with makepkg. > > -- > Regards from Pal
