On Sunday 06 November 2016 16:47:00 Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/4/2016 3:04 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Richard Owlett's xorriso wrote:
> >> xorriso : FAILURE : Cannot write all bytes to disk filesystem path
> >> '/media/myrepo/pool/main/n/ns3/ns3-doc_3.17+dfsg-1_all.deb' : No space
> >> left on device ...
> >> xorriso : aborting : -abort_on 'FAILURE' encountered 'FAILURE'
> >
> > Looks like the filesystem to which you copy is full.
> >
> >> My running copy of Debian is on /dev/sda9 and had ~4GB of 10GB used.
> >
> > Determine the device file and mount point of the destination by
> >
> >    df /media/myrepo/pool/main/n/ns3
> >
> > or if missing by the lowest existing directory above that path.
> >
> > It should tell you something like
> >
> >    Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
> >    /dev/sda3      490205312 23072576 442208680   5% /
> >
> > but with "Use%" 99% or 100% and possible a mount path longer than "/".
> > That's where you would have to make room.
>
> Evidently xorriso does EXACTLY what told to do
> *NOT* what operator _THOUGHT_ he had told it to do ;/ <*ROFL*>
>
> When I had "crashed and burned" on my reported run of xorriso,
> one of my attempts to figure out what had happened triggered a
> graphical display of that I had no space left and gave me an
> option to forcibly delete directories which physically resided on
> /dev/sda9 - which I did. I then had an apparently operable system.
>
> Before seeing your message I did a fresh install of Debian to
> /dev/sda9 which was expanded from 10GB to 80GB.
>
> I then modified my script to run xorriso by adding a manual
> breakpoints for trouble shooting:
>
>    for i in /media/root/jessie-dvds/dvd8_*.iso
>    do
>      xorriso -osirrox on:auto_chmod_on -overwrite nondir \
>              -indev "$i" \
>              -extract /pool /media/myrepo/pool
>
>      echo ""
>      echo "*********************"
>      echo "Just processed " "$i"
>      read -p "press Enter (Ctrl+C to exit)" dummyvar
>    done
>
> Each time the script paused I did
>    df /media/myrepo/pool/main/n
>
> in a different terminal window. I displayed messages of the form:
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda3 490205312 23072576 442208680 5% /
>
> Under "Filesystem" it reported /dev/sda9 rather than the expected
> /dev/sda11 .
> Caja indicates my "filesystem" contains 60.1 GB of which 57.7 GB
> are in /media/myrepo.
> Nothing seems to have gotten to /dev/sda11 which was my intended
> destination.
>
> Based on responses to previous posts titled "Trivial script will
> NOT execute" and "Permissions for an entire PARTITION" I have
> multiple problems understanding Linux file systems generally.

I imagine you have seen this lot - especially the top three??
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=basic+debian+file+system&oq=basic+debian+file+system&aqs=chrome..69i57.7617j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Lisi



>
> My current homework is to now re-read ~40 posts and a to be
> determined number of referenced links. Keywords will likely
> include path, working directory, inode and mount ;/
>
> --
> If retirement isn't for learning, what use is it.

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