RE: cvs co error: "No space left on device"

[Thornley, David]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vinh Cao [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 11:59 AM
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: cvs co error: "No space left on device"
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Our Linux cvs server is working great for the pass two years.
> For the pass couple week it has the error:
> 
> "No space left on device" when my users are checking out or 
> do cvs update.
> 
> CVS server has 1GB RAM and below is it partitions:
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda9             2.0G   91M  1.8G   5% /
> /dev/sda1              23M  3.0k   22M   0% /boot
> /dev/sda5              28G  5.2G   21G  20% /cvs
> /dev/sda6             5.8G  213M  5.3G   4% /home
> /dev/sda10            197M   11M  176M   6% /tmp
> /dev/sda7             2.0G  1.3G  517M  73% /usr
> 
> I need your advice how to resolve this problem or what to do next.
> 
> Thank you in advanced.
> 
What caused that where I work is that the main source tree, which
is a very large module, got close to the size of /tmp.  CVS builds
a source tree in /tmp, and if there wasn't enough room in /tmp
it didn't work.

What is the checked-out size of your largest module?  If it's
getting close to the 176M size of /tmp (which seems plausible,
given the 5.2G size of /cvs), you may just be running out of /tmp
space.

What we did was to increase the size of /tmp and put in a cron job to
remove anything in /tmp that was over a couple of days old.  Since
your /tmp is only 6% full, it looks like you don't have the slow
filling-up problem we had, but you may need to enlarge /tmp.