Insufficient storage even though there is sufficient storage

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I have space on the main partition (about 6gb or 5.3% free) but it is showing as full for some reason. As a result I can’t update.

Filesystem     1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs          370520         0    370520   0% /dev
tmpfs             375512      5096    370416   2% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p2 122530860 116034876    248716 100% /
tmpfs             375512         0    375512   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120         4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs             375512         0    375512   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1    244988     20987    224001   9% /boot
tmpfs              75104         0     75104   0% /run/user/1000

INodes

Filesystem      Inodes IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
devtmpfs         92630   351   92279    1% /dev
tmpfs            93878   401   93477    1% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p2 7790592 94895 7695697    2% /
tmpfs            93878     1   93877    1% /dev/shm
tmpfs            93878     4   93874    1% /run/lock
tmpfs            93878    10   93868    1% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1       0     0       0     - /boot
tmpfs            93878     4   93874    1% /run/user/1000
2

You have 0% free.

3

122530860 - 116034876 = 6495984 which is about 5.3% free

4

Whatever, you need to free up space. You device is full. Try df -h

5

Dude, not helpful. I have 6gb free why does it think it is full?

6

Really, did you try df -h?

I’ve been using Unix/Linux since 1981. How long have you?

7

Changing the units doesn’t resolve the mismatch between the amount of my drive in use and the reported amount available.

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs        362M     0  362M   0% /dev
tmpfs           367M  5.0M  362M   2% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p2  117G  111G  243M 100% /
tmpfs           367M     0  367M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           367M     0  367M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1  240M   21M  219M   9% /boot
tmpfs            74M     0   74M   0% /run/user/1000
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You have 248M free on / this is not enough for an upgrade. You need at least 300M

9

But why does it say 243MB instead of 6GB when it shows only 111GB used on a 117GB drive?

10

e.g. this reason

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Looks clear to me, you have 243M available. Bad blocks on the SD card maybe.

You could try fsck on it, but I’d be careful of that if the SD card is failing, fsck could do it in.

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I didn’t think of that @fzinken. Good thought!

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That adds up @fzinken, thanks.

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For anyone who finds this in the future: the reason was indeed that linux reserves 5% for the root user so they can always login and fix problems. In my case, I was using a 128GB SD Card so that about 6GB reserved space, which is a bit excessive. Luckily, you can modify the default amount reserved by using the following command:

sudo tune2fs -m % /dev/mmcblk0p2

Just replace the ‘%’ with amount of disk space (in percent) that you like reserved. To be safe, I set it to reserve 1% which was just over 1GB thus freeing almost 5GB of space.

15

It’s worth us adjusting this – on the list

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Hello All
I have since April same problem - Message “Insufficient space for Update to proceed. Free some storage space and try again later.”
By my meaning I have enough space (28% used on root):

osmc@osmc:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 362M 0 362M 0% /dev
tmpfs 367M 5.1M 362M 2% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p10 6.1G 1.6G 4.2G 28% /
tmpfs 367M 0 367M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 367M 0 367M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p9 79M 60M 20M 76% /boot
/dev/mmcblk0p1 121M 29M 93M 24% /media/RECOVERY
/dev/mmcblk0p5 30M 1.8M 26M 7% /media/SETTINGS
/dev/mmcblk0p6 63M 21M 43M 32% /media/boot
/dev/mmcblk0p7 7.6G 4.3G 2.9G 61% /media/root0
/dev/mmcblk0p8 488M 2.3M 456M 1% /media/data
/dev/sda1 932G 917G 15G 99% /media/ADATA CH94
/dev/sr0 7.8M 7.8M 0 100% /media/ISO
tmpfs 74M 0 74M 0% /run/user/1000

My logs are here:
http://paste.osmc.tv/tesikucahe
Can you help me please?

Thanks
Jan

17

I think this has been coverd in this post: Latest update complains of lack of disk space

18

Thanks for your reply.
I believe that reinstall to standard OSMC will help
Unfortunately I often use also Raspbian and need NOOBs installation.
Any other recommendation?
Thanks
Jan

19

I’m guessing that the problem is not the OSMC root partition, /dev/mmcblk0p10, but the /boot partition, /dev/mmcblk0p9, which has only 20MB free.

However, the log shows that you have some scope for cleaning out junk on /boot, which is what I’d recommend, starting with uploadlog.txt.

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After deleting of this file I have:

osmc@osmc:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 362M 0 362M 0% /dev
tmpfs 367M 5.1M 362M 2% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p10 6.1G 1.6G 4.2G 28% /
tmpfs 367M 0 367M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 367M 0 367M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> /dev/mmcblk0p9 79M 21M 59M 27% /boot
/dev/mmcblk0p1 121M 29M 93M 24% /media/RECOVERY
/dev/mmcblk0p5 30M 1.8M 26M 7% /media/SETTINGS
/dev/mmcblk0p6 63M 21M 43M 32% /media/boot
/dev/mmcblk0p7 7.6G 4.3G 2.9G 61% /media/root0
/dev/mmcblk0p8 488M 2.3M 456M 1% /media/data
/dev/sda1 932G 917G 15G 99% /media/ADATA CH94
tmpfs 74M 0 74M 0% /run/user/1000

That was help.
Thank You So Much
I´m on latest update: :slight_smile:
Jan
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