Bug 528744

Summary:	app-emulation/libguestfs-appliance-1.26.0-r1 - /usr/share/guestfs/appliance/root needs at least 4GiB
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dennis Schridde <dschridde+gentoobugs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Maxim Koltsov (RETIRED) <maksbotan>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	eva, rich
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dennis Schridde 2014-11-09 15:39:01 UTC

When emerging libguestfs-appliance, I get:

!!! copy /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-appliance-1.26.0-r1/image/usr/share/guestfs/appliance/root -> /usr/share/guestfs/appliance/root failed.
!!! [Errno 28] No space left on device

This is supported by ls:

$ ls -lh /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-appliance-1.26.0-r1/image/usr/share/guestfs/appliance/root
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0G Mar 29  2014 /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-appliance-1.26.0-r1/image/usr/share/guestfs/appliance/root

du disagrees, probably because the file is sparse:

$ du -sh /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-appliance-1.26.0-r1/image/usr/share/guestfs/appliance/root
413M    /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libguestfs-appliance-1.26.0-r1/image/usr/share/guestfs/appliance/root

Maybe the tool portage uses to copy the file does not support sparseness?

Comment 1 Richard Jones 2014-11-13 12:30:13 UTC

It shouldn't need 4 GB.  However it will need a fair chunk
of space.  On Fedora:

$ ls /var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/appliance.d
initrd  kernel  root
$ du -sh /var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/appliance.d
394M	/var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/appliance.d

Please note that 'root' is supposed to be a sparse file.  It
will appear to be 4 GB, but should be about 1/10th of that size.

Now having said that it may be that there is some problem
causing the 'root' file to actually take up 4 GB of space.  I'm
not really clear how you are creating this file.  Are you using
the Fedora appliance?  Or building one?

Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-12-07 13:05:33 UTC

Could you update this issue if you still reproduce the problem ?

Comment 3 Dennis Schridde 2018-12-07 22:08:47 UTC

(In reply to Gilles Dartiguelongue from comment #2)
> Could you update this issue if you still reproduce the problem ?

There seem to be no reverse dependencies left in the Gentoo tree and the package is no longer installed on my system.