Umm... At this point, finding the culprit is not as important as making things work. I can only think of a couple of things. One is to make more space on / (if you can do it without messing things up). The other is to ask the maintainer (or other suitably knowledgeable person).
jim ---------- From: David Z. Maze[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 19, 1998 1:48 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject: Re: dpkg-deb --build and the / partition Lewis, James M <" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> writes: LJM> You might try to look for big increases in space LJM> usage while it is running. find has the -xdev option to keep it LJM> from following mount points. du also has the -x option that does LJM> the same thing. Maybe doing a du before running dpkg-deb and LJM> then running du during the build and comparing the output??? du -sx / shows that a constant amount of space is being used in the / partition while dpkg-deb is running. df shows that the amount of space being used in / is increasing. My best guess is that something is using disk space without creating a directory entry, so that du can't find it... :-( -- _____________________________ / \ "Dad was reading a book called | David Maze | _Schroedinger's Kittens_. Asexual | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | reproduction? Only one cat is in the box." | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Abra Mitchell \_____________________________/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
