No space left on device error... but there's space...

[doro1211]

I am doing a stage 1 gentoo install. After I extract the portage snapshot tarball, I try to emerge --sync. I get an error that there is not enough space. I am in a chrooted environment when I try this (so my new / is mounted as / and /boot as /boot, those are my only partitions besides swap).

There error I get (specifically) is:
mkstemp "/var/tmp/.timestamp.chk.TWcqYT" failed: No space left on device.

When I try to emerge distcc -s (even with a -s to see the full package name), I get an error:
"OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device: '/var/cache/edb/dep//usr/portage/sec-policy/'

df shows that my boot partition is empty, my / partition still has almost a gb left, and I don't have any other partitions/mount points (except the live cd mounts).

What's up? Why does it think I'm out of space? /var should be on the / partition, which has lots of space left.

Thanks in advance, I'm baffled by this one!

[nephros]

[jmbsvicetto]

Hi.

It seems that you may have forgotten to mount the partitions or did the chroot to another dir.
You can easily check that by looking at the disk size and free space with df -h.
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