no space left on device(extracting source)

[Roderickb]

Hi

I am using Phatlinux 3.0. I want to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.2. When I extract the source from the tarball near the end I the following errors

no such file or directory

and

no space left on device

Please tell me that I do not have a unique problem and that it can be fixed.

[demian]

Uhm.. do you have enough drive space? Check it with df -h.

[Roderickb]

Originally posted by demian:
Uhm.. do you have enough drive space? Check it with df -h.


Hi Demian

I have a 10.2GB HDD with only 3.6GB used.

Is phatlinux somehow setting a virtual drive size, and if so how do I increase it?

[demian]

How do you have your partitions arranged. Maybe you extracting to /home or something which resides on a small partition. Post the output of df -h and where you're trying to extract the tarball.
Virtual drive size? Don't think so.

[Roderickb]

Originally posted by demian:
How do you have your partitions arranged. Maybe you extracting to /home or something which resides on a small partition. Post the output of df -h and where you're trying to extract the tarball.
Virtual drive size? Don't think so.
df -h gives me

Filesystem size used avil % mountd on
/dev/loop7 641M 536 47 92 /
/dev/hd1 9.3G 2.1G 7.2G 23 /dos

Thank you, the problem seems to be the size of my root partition.

Now how do I inflate it?

[demian]

Oops. My fault. I didn't know that Phatlinux is one of the runs-on-top-of-windows-distros. The problem is that you have only 641MB available for linux. It all runs in one big file. Hence the loopback device.
Anyways I have never used those distros (and I'd never recommend running them). I don't know if you can chose the size of the file in which linux runs. Maybe during "install". Anyways, this distro will never give you the performance of a real linux installation. So you might want to get a proper distro. Especially when it comes to installing up-to-date software.
Sorry, but I can't help you with this.