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    No space left in device, but there is space left

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    • ClipoC
      Clipo
      last edited by Clipo

      Hi all, I was transferring roms from a USB stick to the retropie, and because there were too many files, my disk was full during the transfer. I remove some roms with the filemanager but the problem remains. Now, I can not update because there is a message hat the disk is full all the time, or create tmp file. I tried to resize the partition again, just in case of, but it seems that there are some files from the old transfer still around.

      Pi Model or other hardware: RP4 4G
      Power Supply used: 5V (I think)
      RetroPie Version Used : 4.6
      Built From: Premade form the retropie website
      USB Devices connected: USB keyboard
      Controller used: WIIU Pro controller

      IMG_20200512_201927 (1).jpg

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Your disk is at 100% capacity - it says so in the screenshot. Some of the disc space on the partition is reserved for the system/root user, so that the system can function even when an user inadvertently fills up the / partition.
        Free up some space on your card and to be get back to normal operations.

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        • ClipoC
          Clipo
          last edited by

          Thank you, before, I deleted like 6 GB and it was not enough. I continue deleting like 4 GB more, and then I had 2 GB free, so like 8 GB are part of the system.

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          • BuZzB
            BuZz administrators
            last edited by

            You can lower reserved space. But I would leave some free.

            https://ma.ttias.be/change-reserved-blocks-ext3-ext4-filesystem-linux/

            To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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