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    "No space left on device" after running resetromdirs.sh

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      HappyDad
      last edited by

      Here's an interesting one.

      I had 32GB free on my SD card, and I decided to run the resetromdirs.sh script (within the RetroPie-Setup script), because I had brought over quite a few roms that were tagged as root.

      Well the script crashed, and now I'm left with 0 bytes of free space. Anyone have any idea what happened? emulationstation no longer starts up, and pretty much anything I do results in a "No space left on device" error.

      I can't find where the data is being taken up. I've ran 'ncdu /', and it's not evident to me where the 32GB have gone to.

      I really don't want to start fresh, but if I have to I will. But before I do, I wanted to see if anyone has any fixes for this issue.

      Thanks!

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        HappyDad
        last edited by

        Disregard, figured it out.

        So I use an external storage HDD that is 320GB... I use that for many of my larger PC games.

        Well apparently that resetromdirs.sh script, for some reason or another I don't understand, started copying (while it was performing the chmod) all the data from my external HDD to the SD card.

        So I just have to go through and delete all the copied data from the SD card, and I should be good to go.

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          Clyde @HappyDad
          last edited by

          @happydad Well, all that's left then is to welcome you to this forum. :)

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @HappyDad
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            @happydad I highly doubt the script copied any files - it runs only chmod and chown commands, no copying. You might have triggered the usbromdirs service which copies your ROMs from the USB to the SD card (https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/#usb-stick).

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