Free space = Full space?

Hanfmet · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 42 Location: Hamburg / Ger

Yesterday I wanted to install gentoo. I printed the handbook and made a new partitiontable. At first my NIC didn't run but I did load the right module. After some trying I found out, that it runs by using smp. I was really happy then

I wanted to do a stage2 install. But emerge sync and emerge-webrsync didn't work. Emerge sync "told" me that there isn't free space on my partition. I was wondering... because the partition had a size of 20gb and the only thing on it was gentoo. I was trying to copy a file and cp gave me the same errormessage. I booted my Knoppixcd and had a look at my partitions - everything was right.
I don't know what went wrong... I hope someone can help me.

Shan · Guru Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 558 Location: /dev/null

Did you remember to make filesystems on those partitions? Cant copy files without a file system

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{ NO -U } { STRIP }
{ TINY }

Hanfmet · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 42 Location: Hamburg / Ger

Yep, I did that. I unpacked the tarball of stage2 on that partition, too.

Shan · Guru Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 558 Location: /dev/null

Whats the output of "du -hs /" give?
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{ NO -U } { STRIP }
{ TINY }

Hanfmet · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 42 Location: Hamburg / Ger

I can't try that command now :oops:

I think the full story would be to long but I had to remove my gentoopartitions because I've got only this computer and had to get online again :/